Dumpster rental in Richelieu | 10, 20 and 40 yards

Choose the right type of dumpster

Size is not the whole story: dumpsters are rented by material type. Each type goes to a different disposal facility — that is why mixed loads bring extra fees. One choice to make, five options:

Dry materials (mixed)

10, 20 and 40 cubic yards

The do-it-all dumpster: wood, drywall, metal, shingles, furniture — mixed, no problem.

Soil, rocks and sod only

20 yard — the only size offered

Excavation, grading, sod removal — soil, rocks and sod, nothing else.

Concrete only

20 yard — the only size offered

Walkways, slabs, foundations — broken concrete, nothing else.

Bricks and mortar only

20 yard — the only size offered

Walls, chimneys, masonry facing — bricks and mortar, nothing else.

Asphalt only

20 yard — the only size offered

Old torn-up paving, curb pieces — asphalt, nothing else.

Why it matters. A dumpster rented for concrete that shows up at the disposal facility with wood in it is refused at the concrete rate: the sorting gets billed back. If you have several types of materials, say so in the form or at 514 708-2424 — we point you to the right type, or to two dumpsters when that costs less than sorting fees.

Strictly refused, in every dumpster

Tires

Paint and solvents refused in every dumpster

Paint, solvents, oils

Propane, aerosols, acids

Frequently asked questions — Richelieu

Do I need a permit to place a dumpster in Richelieu?

Not for the dumpster itself, when it sits entirely on your land. We word it carefully because the conclusion comes from an absence of provision: the word « conteneur » appears neither in the nuisance by-law, nor in the traffic by-law, nor in the winter parking by-law, nor in the 2026 fee by-law, and the closed list of certificates of authorization in the zoning by-law covers no such case. On the street, however, the answer is yes, and the procedure exists: by-law 22-R-252 names the construction-site container and subjects it to a temporary occupancy authorization. The job site often does need a certificate: from 1,000 $ of repair work. In doubt? Town of Richelieu, 450 658-1157.

Can I have the dumpster placed on the street in front of my house?

In Richelieu this is a door with a handle. By-law 22-R-252 provides that a temporary authorization to occupy public property covers « the placement and use of equipment, containers, scaffolding, fencing and temporary shelters for a construction site ». The request is made in writing to the public works department, on the form appended to the by-law, sent to info@ville.richelieu.qc.ca; it is granted if the obstruction is not likely « to endanger the life or safety of persons and property ». No rate is published for this authorization. Without it, leaving materials on public property is a nuisance carrying a minimum fine of 1,000 $ for an individual. And the grassed strip in front of the house is part of public property: you mow it, you do not occupy it. For a plain clear-out with no work, we promise nothing — we call the town with you.

Can I pile debris in the yard while I wait to haul it away?

No, and it is written in plain terms. By-law 22-R-254 declares a prohibited nuisance the act of leaving on a property « demolition debris, construction materials, pieces of asphalt or concrete, scrap metal, waste », and the next section covers « one or more piles of soil, gravel, sand or crushed stone ». Bulky residue not covered by collection may not stay outside more than 48 hours. An offence lasting more than one day constitutes a fresh offence each day. In Richelieu the by-law does not require a dumpster by name — but it makes illegal everything a dumpster replaces.

Can the Rouville drop-off centre replace a dumpster?

For a car trunk it is excellent, and it accepts what many drop-off centres refuse: concrete, asphalt, brick, clean soil, gravel, shingles, wood, drywall. For a job site, no. There is none in Richelieu — the two are in Marieville and Saint-Césaire; visits with those materials are counted, six free per year per address, then 40 $ each; one visit is worth « a volume equivalent to a 4 foot × 8 foot × 16 inch high trailer or less », roughly 1.2 m³; vehicles of 4,500 kg and up are banned; any tipping mechanism is prohibited and « the resident is solely responsible for unloading ». The arithmetic is quick: the six free visits amount to about 7.25 m³, less than a single 10 yard box, which holds 7.6. A 20 yard holds 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³.

My driveway is gravel: is that a problem in Richelieu?

No, and it is in fact the most common surface here: zoning expressly allows lanes and parking areas to be surfaced with « asphalt, gravel or masonry or granular materials ». The risk simply changes nature — on gravel, a loaded box sinks and digs ruts before it marks anything, especially during the spring thaw. Every one of our dumpsters arrives with the PROTEC-O-SOL system, built-in planks that spread the load; nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Tell us the lane width on the phone: it is 7.6 metres at most in Richelieu, with a strip of at least 0.6 metre kept non-drivable along the neighbour's line, and that decides the size as much as the volume of debris does.

Can I keep the dumpster through the winter?

On your own land, yes — provided the room was planned, because a Richelieu driveway is crowded six months a year. A temporary car shelter is allowed from October 15 to April 15, one per lot, and zoning requires it to be « located in the parking access lane »: exactly where the box would go. Snow may not be thrown into a public place, and the owner « is presumed to have allowed » the dumping done by their snow contractor. On the street, the ban runs from December 1 to March 31, between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. on any public road, and it « takes precedence over any sign authorizing parking »: it lifts only through a lifting of the ban announced no later than 5 p.m., to be checked every day on the Info-stationnement line, 450 572-9000.

I manage an apartment building in Richelieu: what do the rules say?

They settle it for you. The Rouville regional county's by-law makes garbage collection with a container mandatory for an apartment building of six units or more, and recycling collection with a container mandatory at twelve units or more, mixed buildings included. Each occupancy unit is limited « at each collection to 720 litres of garbage placed in a maximum of two eligible containers », six bins per building at most, and « excess containers are not collected ». A commercial, industrial or institutional occupant may request « an additional or alternative service by way of containers of various sizes ». Two field reminders: buildings of three storeys or more, or nine dwellings or more, must keep their priority emergency access lanes « free of any obstruction », and the 50 $ Libération Express credit applies when the dumpster is freed up within 48 hours of delivery, from March to October.

And elsewhere? We checked the permit rule in every city we serve, by-law in hand — because it is never the same from one city to the next.

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Areas we serve in Richelieu

We deliver to every neighbourhood in Richelieu — and we know the area.

Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours sector (merged in 2000)1re Rue, along the river2e Rue8e Avenue9e Avenue12e Avenue (residential permit zone)Chemin des Patriotes (Route 133)Route 112, from Chemin des Patriotes to the Yule BridgeChemin de MarievilleRue des OblatsMontée DaigneaultPointe-aux-Chênes, near Autoroute 10

What our drivers check before the box comes down

We deliver everywhere in Richelieu, from the Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours sector to the numbered streets, and the local constraint is not the one big suburbs have: here it is room. The Rouville regional county's development plan puts the town at 2,975 hectares, of which 2,885 are farmland — 92.4% of the territory; the entire residential fabric sits inside an urban perimeter of 115.48 hectares, which held 1,875 dwellings. And the developments built between 1999 and 2011 — 431 dwellings — show a net density of 39.32 dwellings per hectare, the highest in the whole regional county, nearly double Marieville's. Add the riverside streets, born as summer cottages that the town says were « transformed or demolished to make way for new homes »: narrow lots, tight siting, short driveways. In Richelieu the size and the spot get settled on the phone, not when the truck pulls up.

The geometry itself is written into the zoning by-law. A residential access lane is 7.6 metres wide at most — and if the lot has two driveway entrances, it is their combined width that is capped at 7.6 metres, not each one. It must be at least 3 metres wide, 5 metres must separate two accesses, and no access may sit within 7.5 metres of an intersection. Along the neighbour's line, a strip of at least 0.6 metre must stay planted and non-drivable. In the front yard, the parking area may not project more than 3 metres past the façade, nor be laid out in front of a stair, porch, balcony or gallery — and half the front yard must stay green. A 20 yard box, roughly the size of a Dodge Caravan, fits without trapping the car when the spot is chosen ahead; the 10 yard equals a 20 yard filled halfway — same footprint, simply lower.

The third thing our drivers look at is the surface, and here Richelieu is the opposite of several neighbouring towns: its zoning expressly allows lanes and parking areas to be surfaced with « asphalt, gravel or masonry or granular materials ». Many Richelieu driveways are therefore gravel, and the risk is not marking asphalt: it is digging ruts, especially during the spring thaw. That is exactly what the PROTEC-O-SOL system is for, and it comes with every box — built-in planks that spread the load. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Our drivers' tip for full protection: four flattened cardboard boxes or a thin sheet of plywood on the chosen spot, before the truck arrives. Two more local reflexes: we keep 1.8 metres clear around every fire hydrant, which the nuisance by-law protects by name, and our trucks set the box down and leave — zoning here prohibits, in predominantly residential zones, parking a vehicle with three axles or more on a lot whose main use is residential: we never leave a truck waiting there.

Contractors and property managers in Richelieu

Richelieu has 6,070 residents according to the town itself, is crossed by Route 112, Autoroute 10 and Chemin des Patriotes, and the regional county assigns it 20% of the household growth expected by 2031. For a contractor, the first local rule is this one: the nuisance by-law makes it prohibited to leave on a property « demolition debris, construction materials, pieces of asphalt or concrete, scrap metal, waste », and the next section covers « one or more piles of soil, gravel, sand or crushed stone ». Bulky residue not covered by collection may not stay outside more than 48 hours. A Richelieu job site must therefore hold its debris somewhere, and that somewhere is not the ground. Our rotations are built around that: 40 yard dumpsters for job sites that move, photo tracking of every delivery, SMS notifications on drop-off and pick-up, flexible pick-up as the work progresses. The 50 $ Libération Express credit rewards fast job sites: it applies when the dumpster is freed up within 48 hours of delivery, during the March-to-October high season.

Two Richelieu obligations get settled ahead. The first concerns your wheels: anyone whose lot lets out vehicles « whose tires, mudguards, body or cargo box are soiled » must clean them and prevent them from reaching the public road; and a load whose contents scatter « for want of being securely fastened, covered or sealed » is itself a nuisance. The tarp is a rule, not a refinement. The second concerns buildings: the Rouville regional county makes container collection mandatory from six dwellings for garbage and from twelve units for recycling, and caps each occupancy unit at 720 litres per collection, in two containers at most and six bins per building — « excess containers are not collected ». A commercial, industrial or institutional building may request « an additional or alternative service by way of containers of various sizes ». One last detail we factor in by default: residential buildings of three storeys or more, or nine dwellings or more, must keep their priority emergency access lanes free of any obstruction, and no one may park there. That is where a badly placed box gets expensive.

In winter the driveway is shared — and the street is checked daily

Richelieu inverts the winter logic of most towns. By-law 19-R-218 prohibits parking « on any public road, from December 1 to March 31, between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. », and states that this ban « takes precedence over any sign authorizing parking ». Public road there includes the sidewalk, the bike path and public land. Elsewhere you check whether a snow-clearing operation is under way; here you check whether a lifting of the ban has been issued — announced no later than 5 p.m., to be checked daily on the Info-stationnement line, 450 572-9000, and relayed through the town's citizen alerts. The same by-law caps towing at 105 $ and storage at 45 $ per day, charges nothing if the owner reclaims the vehicle before it is hooked to the tow truck, and sets the fine between 50 $ and 200 $ — an offence, it writes, of « absolute liability ».

What changes in the driveway is how crowded it gets. A temporary car shelter is allowed from October 15 to April 15, one per lot, and zoning requires it to be « located in the parking access lane », at least 3 metres from the sidewalk, curb or roadway, never encroaching on the right of way, no taller than 2.5 metres and no larger than 60 m² per dwelling. It stands exactly where the dumpster would go, six months a year, and it needs no certificate of authorization. Add snow: throwing or dumping it in a public place is a nuisance, and « the owner or occupant of any building from which that snow or ice comes is presumed to have allowed » it. As for the grassed strip in front of the house, you mow it but you do not occupy it: the municipal right of way must be maintained by the owner, yet « no construction, structure or planting » is allowed there, apart from a compliant access lane. Six months a year, a Richelieu driveway must hold the snow, the bins, sometimes the car shelter and the dumpster — and the street is no fallback without an authorization. That gets planned when you book.

Why the drop-off centre is not enough in Richelieu

Richelieu has no drop-off centre on its territory. The Rouville regional county, which groups eight municipalities, runs two: Marieville, at 135 chemin du Ruisseau Saint-Louis Est (Route 227), and Saint-Césaire, at 275 Route 112. Access is reserved for residents of the regional county, on presentation of photo ID showing the address, with mandatory registration at the gate. And there is good news, a rare one: concrete, asphalt, brick and clean soil are accepted, along with gravel, stone, sand, shingles, wood, drywall and insulation. So the case is not made on refusal here; it is made on volume and on the number of round trips. Here is where the door closes.

The rule	What it means for a job site
Visits are counted: six a year, per address	Six counted visits free from January 1 to December 31, then « fees of 40 $ per additional visit », for residents and for local businesses alike
One counted visit is worth about 1.2 m³	« A volume equivalent to a 4 foot × 8 foot × 16 inch high trailer or less »; beyond that, the load « will count as 2 counted visits or more »
Vehicles of 4,500 kg and up are banned	Tractors and heavy machinery too, and « it is strictly prohibited to use the tipping mechanism of a vehicle or a trailer »
Everything is unloaded by hand	« The resident is solely responsible for unloading »: sort, place and unload yourself, engine off, no crushing, dismantling or transferring on site
Marieville: four days in summer, three in winter	Marieville opens Wednesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from April 8 to October 31, Thursday to Saturday from November 1; « arrive 30 minutes before closing »
Saint-Césaire closes on November 15	The regional county announces it « closed as of November 15, 2026 »: in winter, check the schedule with Info-collectes, 450 693-2326, before loading the trailer

The arithmetic uses only the figures the regional county publishes, and it is quick: six free counted visits amount to roughly 7.25 m³, which is less than a single 10 yard dumpster, worth 7.6. A 20 yard box (15.3 m³) works out to about thirteen visits, a 40 yard (30.6 m³) to about twenty-six — each billed 40 $ past the sixth, each unloaded by hand, each a round trip to Marieville. And the municipal route offers no relief: since 2026, garbage is collected every three weeks, year-round, capped at 720 litres per collection, and the regional county's by-law excludes dry materials and drop-off-centre materials from the very definition of « garbage ». Bulky waste collection runs only three times a year, by registration, and refuses construction, renovation and demolition residue by name; the on-call pick-up caps at 3 cubic metres and refuses « bulk construction residue (concrete, brick, asphalt, asphalt shingles, pieces of wood, drywall, insulation) ». Meanwhile the Richelieu nuisance by-law makes it prohibited to leave those same materials on the ground. That gap is exactly what a dumpster fills.

Town of Richelieu, « Matières résiduelles » and « Écocentre » pages, and by-law 22-R-254 on nuisances (s. 5, 13, 14, 15 and 16); Rouville regional county, by-law 324-21 on the operation of the drop-off centres (s. 2, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 4.1, 4.2 and 5.2), by-law 333-23 on waste management (s. 1.5, 1.6, 2, 4.3 to 4.7, 5.4, 5.5, 6.5 and 6.6) as amended by by-law 351-26, and the « Écocentres », « Matières acceptées et refusées », « Collecte des ordures » and « Collecte des résidus volumineux » pages — consulted August 19, 2026. The cubic-metre conversions are our own calculation from the published volumes, never a municipal rate.

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