Buildings with 8 or fewer dwellings

You are already eligible for the food waste collection service. To find out when to put out your brown bin, consult Info-collectes.

Buildings with 9 or more dwellings

We are now gradually implementing food waste collection on a schedule that extends into 2024.

If your brown bin hasn’t arrived yet, you can bring your vegetable-origin food waste to one of the many community composting sites across the borough. 

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Community composting sites are managed by neighbourhood éco-quartier organizations.

Éco-quartier Côte-des-Neiges

Registration

Registration is required. Priority is given to residents of buildings with nine or more units.

Composting Locations

• Parc Jean-Brillant, corner of Swail and Gatineau
• Parc Mahatma Gandhi, corner of Van Horne and Hudson
• Parc Mackenzie King, corner of Côte-Sainte-Catherine and Beaucourt
• Parc Place Darlington, south side (near the splash pads)
• Parc Nelson Mandela, alongside Avenue Westbury
• The island at the top of Avenue Ridgewood

Éco-quartier Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

Registration

Registration is required. To have access to a compost bin, you must pay a $5 key deposit fee.

Composting Locations

• Parc Herbert-Outerbridge: between Avenue Benny and Avenue West Hill, north of Sherbrooke

Buildings with 20 or fewer dwellings

You are eligible for the food waste collection service. To find out when to put out your brown bin, visit Info-collectes.

Buildings with 21 or more dwellings, day care centres, schools and small businesses

You can bring your leftovers to one of the many community composting sites across the borough. The service is free, but you must register to have access to the composters.

See the map.

By doing this, you will be helping your borough achieve its zero-waste goal. If you’re interested in learning more about responsible, environmentally friendly practices, register to take part in a workshop (in French).

Instructions

• Cut up food waste to accelerate decomposition.
• Add wood pellets (1 portion of pellets for every 7 portions of waste) to absorb moisture and avoid bad odours. You will find the pellets in the wooden box next to the composter.
• Turn the composter to mix and aerate the contents.

Acceptable materials

• Fruits and vegetables (avoid citrus fruits which do not decompose well)
• Seeds: leftover bread, starches, pasta, rice, tofu
• Coffee grounds and tea leaves (remove labels from the bags)
• Eggshells (crush them please)
• Solid dairy products (cheese, yogurt) in small quantities
• Meat, fish (in small quantities). Bones are not allowed.

Unacceptable materials

• Biodegradable containers (egg cartons, pizza boxes, etc.)
• Corn leaves and cobs (decomposition takes too long)
• Liquids (milk, coffee, tea, juice, soup, etc.)
• Dense organic matter (oyster, mussel, clam, lobster and shrimp shells, mango pits, bones, etc.)
• Paper of all kinds
• Plastic of all kinds, including compostable, biodegradable and oxybiodegradable bags
• Gardening waste (it takes up too much space)

View the map (in French)

The community compost sites are connected to the éco-quartiers.

Seemap.

Éco-quartier de Saint-Jacques

Registration

To access a composter, you must:

• Follow a 20-minute training session about composting
• Pay a $10 fee (for registration and key deposit)

Composter locations

• Espace Pierre-Bourgault (Rue Plessis, between Rue Ontario and Rue Lafontaine)
• Parc Raymond-Blain (Rue Panet, between Rue Lafontaine and Rue Logan, behind the CIUSS)
• Parc Aristode-Beaugrand-Champagne (Rue Beaudry, at René-Lévesque)
• Parc Saint-Jacques (Rue Saint-Christophe, between Rue Ontario and Boulevard De Maisonneuve Est)
• Cégep du Vieux Montréal (between Rue Hôtel-de-Ville and Rue Sanguinet, Rue Sherbrooke and Rue Ontario, behind the Cégep)
• Composteur King/Wellington (at the corner of Rue King and Rue Wellington)
• Parc à chiens de la Commune (at the corner of Rue Brennan and Rue Duke)

Learn more and register

Éco-quartier de Sainte-Marie

Registration

Registration is free, and can be done at the éco-quartier office or by telephone.

Composter locations

• Parc Médéric-Martin (behind Centre Jean-Claude Malépart)
• Parc des Vétérans (northern part of the park, near the bicycle path)
• The alley known as “Larivière,” between Rue Parthenais,  Rue Harmony, Rue Larivière and Rue de Rouen

Learn more and register

Éco-quartier de Peter-McGill

Registration

To access a composter, you must:

• Follow a 15-minute training session about composting
• Pay a $15 fee (for registration, annual payment for repairs and maintenance and key deposit)

Composter locations

• Rue de Versailles (near 800 Rue de Versailles)
• Parc Prudence-Heward (formerly Guy-Paxton, near 543 Rue Guy)
• Parc Julia-Drummond (at the corner of Rue Lucien-L’Allier and Rue Saint-Jacques)
• Rue Seymour, near Parc Hector-Toe-Blake, in the alley, north of Boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest
• Parc Percy-Walters (at the corner of Rue Redpath and Avenue du Docteur-Penfield), near the chalet

Learn more and register