Dumpster rental in Saint-Lambert | 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 — Saint-Lambert

Do I need a permit to place a dumpster in Saint-Lambert?

Not for the dumpster itself, if it stays entirely on your land. We word it carefully because the conclusion comes from an absence of provision: the word « conteneur » appears neither in by-law 2023-218 on permits and certificates, nor in construction by-law 2023-217, nor in the architectural integration by-law, nor in the demolition by-law, nor in the traffic by-law, nor in the nuisance by-law — and the closed list of certificates of authorization covers no such case. Fee by-law 2025-244 sets no charge either. The job site, though, often does need a certificate: from 10,000 $ of interior work not affecting the structure, and regardless of cost for exterior cladding, an architectural component, or electrical, plumbing or heating systems. In doubt? Planning, permits and inspection department, 450 672-4444.

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

Saint-Lambert is one of the few towns in the region with a procedure that names the dumpster: its « Demande de permis ou de certificats » page requires a temporary public-domain occupancy certificate for works to « install […] containers […] on the public roadway ». The 2026 rate is 100 $ per day, the application is a signed form sent to both genie@saint-lambert.ca and urbanisme@saint-lambert.ca, and the town asks you to « allow 10 business days before the obstruction begins ». Two reservations, which we would rather state: the same page adds that « deposits in the street are not authorized » and that you may not « under any condition » place equipment or debris on the public roadway, and the rate carries the note « storage of bulk materials is not authorized ». We do not decide in the town's place: call 450 672-4444 before counting on the street. By default, we deliver in the driveway.

Is it true that a job site must have a dumpster in Saint-Lambert?

Yes, and it is written in plain terms. Section 12.4 of waste management by-law 2021-189 states that « during construction, extension or renovation work on a building, the owner and the occupant must store the waste, including construction, renovation and demolition materials, in one or more containers provided for that purpose and dispose of it themselves and at their own expense ». Section 15.3 rounds it out by putting debris, soil, concrete and rock on the owner, and the nuisance by-law makes demolition debris left on a lot a prohibited nuisance. In Saint-Lambert the dumpster is therefore not a convenience: it is the written way a residential job site must handle its debris.

Why does the dumpster's spot depend on trees in Saint-Lambert?

Because the town has put a number on the question. The construction by-law requires, before any work begins, an optimal protection zone around every tree, whose radius is calculated: trunk diameter × 12. The by-law gives its own example — « a tree 0.25 metre in diameter must have a 3 metre protection zone around it. This is the radius in which no traffic is allowed during the work » — and requires a fence at least 1.5 m high to mark it out. Zoning goes further: « placing on the ground objects or materials liable to obstruct the supply of water, air or nutrients to a tree's roots » is deemed to be felling, and therefore prohibited without a certificate. Add that the town inventories 13,600 public trees, which belong to it and which it is prohibited to prune or have felled, and you see why our drivers pick the spot before setting out.

Can the Longueuil drop-off centres replace a dumpster?

For a car trunk, yes. Saint-Lambert has no municipal drop-off centre: section 6 of by-law 2021-189 sends its residents free of charge to the agglomeration's sites — Marie-Victorin and Payer in Longueuil, Saint-Bruno in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville — and concrete, brick, rock, asphalt and uncontaminated soil are accepted there. For a job site, no. Each address gets 12 free visits a year, the volume must stay under 2.5 m³ per visit, the vehicle may not exceed 7.5 m including the trailer, no tipping trailer is admitted and « materials must be unloaded manually by the citizen ». Add that Marie-Victorin closes Monday and Tuesday from November 1 to March 31, and the arithmetic is quick: a 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³ — an address's whole yearly quota for a single 40 yard box.

I manage a building in Saint-Lambert: which rules apply?

By-law 2021-189 settles it for you, and it concerns a good share of the town: according to the urban plan, 37% of local dwellings sit in buildings under five storeys and 20% in buildings over five storeys (2016 census data). From 10 residential occupancy units up, a container becomes mandatory for garbage, recyclables and organics, and « where the volume of waste generated requires more than 15 bins, the owner is obliged to obtain containers ». A building with more than 9 units may opt out of municipal collection on proof of private contracts — it must then file every year, before March 1, a copy of its contract and a tonnage declaration. Two limits worth knowing: a container with its contents may not exceed 1,800 kg, and the agglomeration's drop-off centres accept no commercial waste.

What hours can you deliver or pick up the dumpster?

Within the window Saint-Lambert's by-laws leave open, and it is narrower than elsewhere. Construction work and the use of noisy tools are prohibited all day Sunday and between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Monday to Saturday, and the nuisance by-law expressly names « loading or unloading a truck […] of rubble, pipe, stone, gravel, sand, cement, concrete mixes, construction materials » among the operations prohibited between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Noise is also capped at 50 decibels at all times at the property line. Our drivers likewise apply the municipal three-minute idling rule and drive at 30 km/h, the limit across the whole territory except on five arteries. In short: we set the window with you, on a weekday or Saturday daytime.

Will the dumpster damage my driveway?

It is the question we hear most in Saint-Lambert, because zoning here requires driving lanes and parking spaces to be « paved, asphalted, concreted or covered with cellular pavers » — and because a residential curb cut is only 2.5 m to 6 m wide. The box therefore lands on a finished surface, in a measured space. Every one of our dumpsters is delivered with the PROTEC-O-SOL system, built-in planks that spread the load and protect the surface. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Our drivers' tip, for full protection: lay four flattened cardboard boxes, or a thin sheet of plywood, on the chosen spot before the truck arrives.

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 Saint-Lambert

We deliver to every neighbourhood in Saint-Lambert — and we know the area.

Vieux Saint-LambertSaint-Charles — Haut Saint-LambertLe VillageParc Victoria – AlexandraHoudePrévillePréville-les-ChampsDésaulniersPréville-en-BasNoyau villageoisRue RiversideRue de BretagneAvenue VictoriaBoulevard Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier

What our drivers check before the box comes down

We deliver across all seven of Saint-Lambert's neighbourhoods, from Vieux Saint-Lambert to Préville-les-Champs, and the truck plans its move before it arrives. Here, the first thing settled on the phone is driveway width. Zoning sets a residential curb cut at between 2.5 m and 6 m wide — at most 9 m where the lot allows two paired entrances — and a lot less than 24 m wide gets one curb cut only. On a corner lot, no entrance may sit closer than 7 m to the intersection. These are tight measurements: a 20 yard box, roughly the size of a Dodge Caravan, fits in a 6 m lane, but almost nothing fits beside it. The 10 yard equals a 20 yard filled halfway: same footprint, simply lower.

The second thing our drivers check is the trees — and in Saint-Lambert that is not judged by eye, it is calculated. The construction by-law requires, before any work begins, an optimal protection zone around every tree, and it gives the formula: radius = trunk diameter × 12. A 0.25 m trunk therefore calls for a 3 m radius — the example is the by-law's own — a 0.40 m trunk for 4.8 m, and that is the radius « in which no traffic is allowed during the work ». Sharper still: zoning counts among the acts deemed to be the felling of a tree « placing on the ground objects or materials liable to obstruct the supply of water, air or nutrients to a tree's roots ». Setting a box in the wrong spot is not clumsiness here: it is felling, in the by-law's own terms. And the tree in the street right-of-way in front of your house is not yours — the town has 13,600 public trees on its inventory. We pick the spot outside those protection zones, and we say so when you book rather than once the truck is at the door.

The third is the surface. Zoning requires driving lanes and parking spaces to be « paved, asphalted, concreted or covered with cellular pavers » so as to prevent dust and mud. In a housing stock where close to three quarters of dwellings were built before 1980 — Saint-Lambert urban plan, 2016 census data — those surfaces are often freshly redone. 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 last Saint-Lambert reflexes: on a corner lot, nothing over 0.75 m tall inside the visibility triangle whose two sides run 9 m from the intersection; and you keep your distance from fire hydrants — zoning bars any fence, low wall, retaining wall or hedge within 1.5 m of one, and the nuisance by-law bars dumping snow or ice within 3 m.

Contractors, condo boards and property managers

Saint-Lambert is not a town of single-family homes, and that changes everything for a property manager. Its urban plan puts numbers on it: 31% of dwellings are detached single-family homes, 12% are semi-detached or row houses, 37% sit in buildings under five storeys and 20% in buildings over five storeys (2016 census data). More than half the local stock is therefore in apartment buildings, on a territory 95% urbanized which has, in the plan's own words, « reached a certain maturity ». 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.

For a condo board or a property manager, by-law 2021-189 settles it for you. From 10 residential occupancy units up, a container becomes mandatory for garbage, recyclables and organics; and section 23.10 adds that « where the volume of waste generated requires more than 15 bins, the owner is obliged to obtain containers ». A building with more than 9 units may opt out of municipal collection on proof of private contracts — it must then file, every year before March 1, a copy of the contract and a tonnage declaration. Two figures worth keeping: a container with its contents may not exceed 1,800 kg, and the town requires every bin truck or packer truck driving within its limits to be « watertight and to let no liquid leak nor waste fall ». We take that mandate, with a contract on file if the town asks for it — and note in passing that the agglomeration's drop-off centres accept no commercial waste at all.

Three traffic constraints we factor in by default. Loading or unloading a truck of stone, gravel, sand, cement, concrete mixes or construction materials is prohibited between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., and noisy work is banned all day Sunday. Speed is capped at 30 km/h across the whole territory — 20 km/h in school zones Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. — except on five arteries left at 50 km/h: Avenue Victoria, Rue Riverside, Boulevard Simard, Chemin Tiffin and Boulevard Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier. Finally, Saint-Lambert has its own trucking plan: heavy vehicles are barred from the roads listed in schedule D of by-law 2024-232, dated February 26, 2024, except — the by-law says so — to « pick up or deliver goods, provide a service, carry out work ». Local delivery is expressly protected; the junction of routes 132 and 112, which the urban plan calls « a major congestion node », is less so, and our delivery windows account for it.

In winter the driveway is shared — but never with a car shelter

Good news first, and it is specific to Saint-Lambert: the temporary car shelter does not exist here. Chapter 6 of the zoning by-law puts it flatly — « temporary car shelters, snow shelters, smokers' shelters or other temporary shelters are prohibited throughout the territory of the Town of Saint-Lambert ». Unlike several towns in the region, a Saint-Lambert driveway is not occupied by a Tempo six months a year, so the room a dumpster needs is not disputed by one. What does dispute it is the snow — and zoning planned for that: a parking area must be laid out « so as to allow the removal and storage of snow without reducing its capacity below the minimum number of spaces required ».

The rest gets planned. Snow stays on your land: pushing, moving or dumping it onto public property is prohibited, and the town specifies that snowbanks along the street or the garage entrance must not exceed 2.5 m — private snow-clearing companies are bound by the same rules as owners. The bins go in the driveway, « and not in the street or on the sidewalk »; after a snowfall the owner must clear and de-ice them completely and clear the path so the trucks can reach them. Six months a year, a Saint-Lambert driveway has to hold the snow, the bins and the dumpster. That is exactly why the spot is chosen when you book, not when the truck pulls up.

A word on the street, because the local rule reads badly at first. Overnight parking is allowed in winter, from December 1 to March 31 — except where signs forbid it, and except during a snow-clearing notice, when parking is banned between midnight and 5:30 a.m. « across the whole territory WITHOUT EXCEPTION ». The town announces by 4 p.m. at the latest that a notice takes effect or is lifted (Info-déneigement: 450 466-3788), the use of a single one of its communication channels « renders the parking ban effective », and the citizen « is deemed to have taken notice » of the information. A ticket then costs 160 $ plus fees, and 140 $ more if the vehicle is towed. One caution, though: this permission applies to a road vehicle. A dumpster is not one, and a trailer requires written authorization from the town in any case. Overnight parking being allowed therefore does not mean a dumpster may spend the night on the street — for that there is a certificate, described below.

Why the drop-off centre is not enough in Saint-Lambert

Saint-Lambert runs no drop-off centre of its own. Section 6 of by-law 2021-189 sends its residents, free of charge, to the Longueuil agglomeration network: Marie-Victorin (1140 boulevard Marie-Victorin, Longueuil), Payer (5050 rue Ramsay, Longueuil) and Saint-Bruno (600 rue Sagard, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville). Good news, and a real difference from many municipal facilities: rock, brick, concrete, asphalt and uncontaminated soil are accepted. So the constraint is not the material — it is the volume, the vehicle and your back. Here is where the door closes.

The rule	What it means for a job site
12 free visits a year, per address	The quota counts by home address, not by load, and access requires a driver's licence and the vehicle registration
2.5 m³ per visit at most	« Sort your materials by category and make sure their volume is under 2.5 m³ »
Everything is unloaded by hand	« Materials must be unloaded manually by the citizen », and no tipping trailer may be used on the sites
Vehicle 7.5 m maximum	Trailer included — a straight truck or a rented roll-off does not get in
Closed Monday and Tuesday five months a year	Marie-Victorin, from November 1 to March 31; the Payer site, by contrast, opens seven days a week year-round
Residential origin only	« Commercial waste is not accepted in any of our drop-off centres » — and staff may check the contents of opaque bags
Fixed closures on the calendar	June 24, December 24, 25, 26 and 31, January 1 and 2; arriving at least 30 minutes before closing is recommended

At the curb, the fallback is thinner still. The garbage bin expressly excludes construction, renovation and demolition materials, dry materials, excavation, granular material and soil — it is written into by-law 2021-189's definition of ultimate waste and repeated in its schedule A. The town says it again in plain terms: « Collectors do not pick up construction, renovation and demolition residues such as wood, ceramic, a toilet, etc. » Only one garbage bin is allowed per single-family home, and collection passes only every three weeks, every two weeks in summer. The bulky waste collection, four times a year, rests on a closed list of seven items followed by the sentence « any materials other than those named above will not be collected »: no wood, no construction materials. What remains is what section 15.3 states itself — debris from demolition, construction or renovation « as well as soil, concrete or rock » must be removed « by one's own means and at one's own expense ». The arithmetic is quick: a 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³ — which is, at 2.5 m³ per visit, an address's entire yearly quota for a single 40 yard box.

Town of Saint-Lambert, by-law 2021-189 on waste management (s. 6, 8, 12.4, 15.3, 17, 23.10, 24 and 25; schedules A and E), fee by-law 2025-244, « Déchets domestiques », « Encombrants », « Matières récupérables » and « Collectes municipales » pages; Longueuil agglomeration, « Écocentres » page, Marie-Victorin and Payer site pages and the « Matières acceptées — écocentres » leaflet — consulted August 19, 2026. The agglomeration reserves the right to change the list of accepted materials « at any time »: hence the date attached to every line.

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