In Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, Megabac Environnement delivers dumpsters across the whole territory: three sizes for mixed dry materials — 10, 20 or 40 cubic yards — plus four dumpsters reserved for a single material: soil-rock-sod, concrete, brick and mortar, asphalt. PROTEC-O-SOL planks are included and protect a driveway that is often narrow here. One call to 514 708-2424 gives you the size, the price and the date.
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Dumpster rental — or bin rental, as many Montrealers call it — for the big cleanout, an estate, a renovation or a demolition: dry materials, soil, concrete, bricks, asphalt and more.
14' long × 8' wide × 2.5' high · 3 to 4 pickup-truck loads
A 20-yard filled halfway: same footprint, just lower — choosing it won't free up space in a short driveway.
For guidance only — the exact size cannot be guaranteed.
14' long × 8' wide × 5' high · 6 to 8 pickup-truck loads
About the size of a Dodge Caravan — you can already picture it
20' long × 8' wide × 7' high · 12 to 16 pickup-truck loads
Our practical guide helps you choose the right size for your project — renovation, demolition, soil, concrete, bricks, asphalt — with the conditions and the FAQ.
Libération Express
Every rental includes 7 days — 15 for contractors. But if you work fast, our quick-release promotion rewards you:
More than 48 hours after delivery, the promotion no longer applies — your 7-day rental simply continues, without the credit.
Freeing up dumpsters sooner is also what lets us deliver faster everywhere in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel — everyone wins.
Offer valid during the high season (March to October).
A full dumpster is heavy, and drop-off and pickup are when asphalt gets marked. Every Megabac dumpster arrives clean, safe and fitted with the exclusive PROTEC-O-SOL system: built-in planks that spread the load and protect your asphalt, concrete or paved driveway. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay.
Even with the planks, the dumpster is still a steel box. Before the truck arrives, lay down four flattened cardboard boxes — or a thin sheet of plywood — where the dumpster will sit: the steel never touches your asphalt or your pavers directly. Two minutes of prep, zero worries.
The price depends on the size, the type of materials, how long you keep it — and your area. The form above or a two-minute call is all it takes to get your exact price, fast. What makes up the price, in plain words → And if you free up the dumpster within 48 hours of delivery, the Libération Express credit applies — details below.
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:

10, 20 and 40 cubic yards
The do-it-all dumpster: wood, drywall, metal, shingles, furniture — mixed, no problem.

20 yard — the only size offered
Excavation, grading, sod removal — soil, rocks and sod, nothing else.

20 yard — the only size offered
Walkways, slabs, foundations — broken concrete, nothing else.

20 yard — the only size offered
Walls, chimneys, masonry facing — bricks and mortar, nothing else.

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.
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Propane, aerosols, acidsNo municipal by-law found requires one for the dumpster itself, if it sits entirely on your land. We word it carefully because the conclusion comes from an absence of provision: a full-text search run on August 21, 2026 through the zoning by-law (192, 315 pages), the construction by-law (193), the permit fee by-law (195) and the urban plan (191) finds no occurrence of the word « conteneur » in three of those four texts, and the six occurrences in the zoning by-law all concern waste containers with a lid in a side or rear yard. The list of certificates in by-law 195 is closed and covers no such case — though section 2.1.5 still sets 10.00 $ as « the minimum base fee for the issuance of any permit not provided for in this by-law ». The job site, however, does need a permit as soon as you erect, enlarge, transform, modify or repair a structure, and the application must be filed at least one week before work begins. In doubt? 450 742-3744, extension 208.
There is a permit for that, and it is the most concrete fact in the local rules. By-law 195 expressly provides a « Permis d'occupation de la voie publique », issued free of charge, but whose issuance is « subject to a security deposit of one thousand dollars (1,000.00 $) to cover damages the Municipality might incur » (s. 2.1.4). Neither the duration, nor the width occupied, nor signage, nor insurance is published: the phrase appears only twice in the four by-laws consulted. Add, from September 1, 2026, the twelve-consecutive-hour cap on a public road and the ban on heavy trucks parking on residential streets outside loading. So we promise nothing on the roadway: the spot is in your driveway, or we call the town together at 450 742-3744, extension 208.
Yes, and it is written in plain terms. Public safety by-law RM-2026 — adopted June 8, 2026, in force September 1, 2026 — declares a nuisance, at section 145 e), leaving on a lot « construction debris such as boards, pipes, electrical equipment, bricks, stones, nails, steel, asphalt shingles, vinyl and other similar materials, anywhere other than in a container provided for that purpose ». Paragraph d) of the same section tolerates wood, stone, metal, brick, soil, sand or gravel left loose only « during construction or renovation work that is under way, and for the duration of that work ». In other words: during the job, loose material passes; after it, the pile is an offence. The dumpster is the only compliant way to keep debris on a lot.
For a car trunk, it helps. For a job site, no. Sorting materials is mandatory on site; « the use of wheeled bins is prohibited at the drop-off centre, even to make transporting materials easier », so everything comes out by hand; and near closing time access « may exceptionally be limited or refused » once maximum intake capacity is reached. Do the arithmetic: a 10 cubic yard box is 270 cu ft, a 20 yard 540 cu ft, a 40 yard 1,080 cu ft — that many trunkloads to fill, drive, sort and empty by hand. Add that the bulky waste collection expressly refuses construction materials, doors and windows included, and the calculation makes itself.
Into a private dumpster — there is no other route. The Pierre-De Saurel regional county says it plainly for its drop-off centre: « No material from commercial businesses is accepted. » Municipal collection, for its part, expressly refuses construction materials among bulky waste. There is also no municipal waste by-law in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel at all: the town takes no position on job site debris, and the regional county runs the service. We deliver the 40 yard box for job sites that move, plus four single-material sizes — soil-rock-sod, concrete, brick and mortar, asphalt — with photo tracking, SMS notifications and flexible pick-up. The 50 $ Libération Express credit applies when the box is freed up within 48 hours of delivery, from March to October.
That is the right question here, and it comes before the size. Zoning caps an access lane at 7 metres wide, 8 metres only if it leads to a garage or carport; two accesses at most on an interior lot, for 10 metres combined; 60 centimetres to keep between the lane and the side lot line; a slope that may reach 10%, which has to start 1.5 metres back from the street. Add that 82% of the housing stock predates 1960, according to the urban plan, and you have the picture: short, tight driveways. A 20 yard box is roughly the size of a Dodge Caravan, and the 10 yard equals a 20 yard filled halfway — same footprint, simply lower. Tell us the width, we will tell you the size.
Between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., seven days a week. The public safety by-law makes construction, demolition or repair work a nuisance between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., and no separate weekend schedule was found in the text — a real flexibility compared with several ring suburbs, where Saturdays and Sundays are shorter. Two winter caveats: street parking is prohibited between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. from November 15 to April 15, and the town may post temporary no-parking signage while it carries out road work or snow clearing. Our drivers also watch the idling: 5 minutes at most for the diesel engine of a stopped heavy vehicle, per 60-minute period.
No, and the difference shows up in the by-laws. Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel is a distinct town, with its own council and its own by-laws, surrounded by Sorel-Tracy, the St. Lawrence River and the Richelieu River. Public safety by-law RM-2026 is harmonized across the Pierre-De Saurel regional county, but it reserves a section « applicable to the Town of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel exclusively » (s. 97 to 109), and that section is stricter: parking on a public road is capped at twelve consecutive hours in the same spot, against twenty-four hours in the Sorel-Tracy section. The public road occupancy permit, the permit fees and the zoning are Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel's own as well. That is why this page exists separately.
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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We deliver to every neighbourhood in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel — and we know the area.
We deliver across the whole residential sector of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, from rue Montcalm to rue du Fleuve, and the truck plans its move before it arrives. Here one question really matters, and it gets settled on the phone: how wide your driveway is. Zoning by-law 192 puts a number on it — an access lane is at most 7 metres wide, raised to 8 metres only when it leads to a garage or a carport (s. 3.7.2.1). An interior lot gets two accesses at most, for no more than 10 metres combined; a corner lot, one access per street. Sixty centimetres must be kept between the lane and the side lot line, and the access must sit at least 8 metres from the intersection of two street lines. The slope may reach 10% and must start 1.5 metres back from the street (s. 3.7.2.3); a semicircular access may not exceed 4 metres. A 20 yard box, roughly the size of a Dodge Caravan, fits a driveway here when the spot is chosen ahead; the 10 yard equals a 20 yard filled halfway — same footprint, simply lower.
The second thing our drivers know about this town is the age of its housing. The urban plan (by-law 191) counts close to 900 dwellings in some 550 buildings, 24 dwellings per hectare on the built-up portion, and states that 82% of the housing stock predates 1960 — a share the plan itself calls « double that observed for the agglomeration as a whole ». Houses of that age mean narrow driveways, porches close to the street and low wires. That is why, in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, the question to ask when booking is the width of the driveway, never the size of the dumpster: the size follows, almost on its own.
Third, the yard. Zoning names waste containers with a lid among the equipment allowed in side yards and rear yards (s. 3.2.2 and 3.2.3), and asks them to stay at least 1.5 metres from any lot line; the front-yard list names none. Those sections aim at a building's permanent lidded container, not the open box we drop off for a few days — so we do not present them as an authorization. They do point to the most comfortable ground: when the side or rear yard is reachable by truck, that is where we set the box, with that metre and a half of clearance. And on asphalt as on pavers, the PROTEC-O-SOL system comes with every dumpster: 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.
Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel is not a suburb: it is an industrial town of 1.36 km². The urban plan (by-law 191, table 4.1) splits the territory this way — 853,962 m² of industry, or 62.3%, against 343,826 m² of housing (25.1%), 45,400 m² of institutions and 32,462 m² of retail; streets take only 2.8%. The same plan describes a « residential function concentrated and largely ringed by heavy industrial zones », acknowledges nuisances « relating to dust and noise », and notes that the 2.4 hectares of vacant land belong to the large industrial firms, which keep them as transition zones. The town is full: its organization « is a matter of mutation rather than expansion ». For a contractor that translates simply: here you renovate, convert and demolish — you do not open new neighbourhoods.
For you, the municipal route is closed in advance. The Pierre-De Saurel regional county drop-off centre puts it in one sentence: « No material from commercial businesses is accepted. » So there is no alternative to a private dumpster for a contractor, a business or a property manager here. Our rotations are built around that: 40 yard dumpsters for job sites that move, four single-material sizes — soil-rock-sod, concrete, brick and mortar, asphalt — photo tracking of every delivery, SMS notifications on drop-off and pick-up, and 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 street constraints we factor in by default, and they belong to this town alone. Public safety by-law RM-2026, adopted June 8, 2026 and in force September 1, 2026, reserves a section « applicable to the Town of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel exclusively »: from that date, a road vehicle may not stay more than twelve consecutive hours in the same spot on a public road (s. 106), where Sorel-Tracy, across the boundary, allows twenty-four. And a heavy truck may not park on a residential street, « except for vehicles used for loading or unloading goods, on condition however that these operations be carried out quickly, without interruption, and in the presence and under the custody of the driver » (s. 104). A dumpster delivery is exactly that exception: the driver sets the box down and leaves. One last detail for fleets — storing more than one commercial vehicle on a property counts as a commercial use and is forbidden in residential zones (zoning 192, s. 3.2.1.2).
Street parking in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel is scarce enough that the town had to organize overflow spaces: it issues a winter parking certificate, valid from November 15 to April 15, for three municipal lots — the town hall, at the corner of rue Montcalm and rue Élizabeth, the Centre récréatif Aussant, near rue Léon XIII and rue Saint-Joseph, and the parc de la Pointe-aux-Pins, along rue du Fleuve and part of rue Vézina. The certificate hangs from the mirror, is valid only for the vehicle it was issued to, and may not be lent, transferred, sold or rented. On top of that, across the whole territory, parking on a public road is prohibited between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m., from November 15 to April 15 inclusive. When a town has to open overflow lots to its own residents, the private driveway becomes precious — and contested.
Contested by what, exactly. By the temporary car shelter first: zoning allows it from October 15 to April 15, six full months, and the by-law itself says it « must be erected on the parking area or on an access lane to such an area » (s. 3.4.2.1). Three metres high at most, 75 centimetres of side and rear margin, never closer than 1.5 metres to a fire hydrant, and two metres back from a street curb — or one metre back from a sidewalk where the street has one. It stands exactly where the dumpster would go. By the snow next: pushing, blowing or dumping it into a street, a lane, a municipal ditch or watercourse, onto a sidewalk, into a public parking lot, or in a way that blocks access to a building is a nuisance; 1.5 metres of clearance must also be left around a fire hydrant and 4.5 metres from any electrical wire. And the text adds a sentence few people know: an owner who hires a contractor for snow removal « is responsible for the offence committed by the contractor ».
In practice, from mid-October to mid-April, a Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel driveway has to hold the car, the snow, often the car shelter — and the dumpster. Since the street is no fallback, and since the town may post temporary no-parking signage while it carries out road work or snow clearing, the spot gets reserved at the same time as the box. Two minutes on the phone, and the driver knows where to set the dumpster down before he even turns the corner. These parking, snow and signage rules come from public safety by-law RM-2026, adopted June 8, 2026 and in force September 1, 2026.
There is no municipal waste by-law in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel: both collection and the drop-off centre belong to the Pierre-De Saurel regional county, which groups 12 municipalities, 51,339 residents and more than 594 km². The drop-off centre is therefore regional and shared, and it keeps several doors shut. Here they are.
| The rule | What it means for a job site |
|---|---|
| Nothing that comes out of a business | « No material from commercial businesses is accepted »: for a contractor, a shop or a property manager, the question is settled before it is asked |
| Not even a wheeled bin | « The use of wheeled bins is prohibited at the drop-off centre, even to make transporting materials easier » — everything comes out by hand |
| Sorting happens on site, and you do it | « Sorting of materials is mandatory on site »: drywall, wood, aggregates and shingles get separated before they are dropped |
| A capacity that can close the gate | Near closing time, access « may exceptionally be limited or refused » once maximum intake capacity is reached |
| One trunk at a time | Everything goes through your vehicle, your arms and your round trips: a 20 cubic yard box is 540 cu ft to load and then unload by hand |
At the curb, the fallback is thinner still. The bulky waste collection names what it refuses: « Construction materials (including doors and windows) », auto parts, electrical and electronic appliances. Garbage and recyclables come by only on Thursdays, every two weeks, alternating; green waste gets three dates a year and branches two — and even then branches must be 5 cm in diameter and tied in bundles of at most 25 kg and 1.5 m. Bins themselves must be « placed at the property line without encroaching on public roadways ». What remains is what the public safety by-law states itself: construction debris left « anywhere other than in a container provided for that purpose » is a nuisance. That is precisely what a dumpster does.
Town of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, « Collectes des matières résiduelles » page and by-law documentation centre; Pierre-De Saurel regional county, « Écocentre » page (access, refused materials, wheeled bins, mandatory sorting, intake capacity), « Présentation » page and the 2026 collection calendar for Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel; public safety by-law RM-2026, s. 145 e), adopted June 8, 2026 and in force September 1, 2026 — consulted August 21, 2026.
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