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

In person

Buildings with access to the food waste collection 

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

Buildings without access to the food waste collection

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).

View the map (in French)

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

See map.

Éco-quartier de Sainte-Marie et de Saint-Jacques

Registration

Registration is free, and can be done at the éco-quartier office, by telephone (ext. 103) or by e-mail.

Learn more and register

Composter locations

District of Sainte-Marie

• Parc Médéric-Martin (behind Centre Jean-Claude Malépart, south of the community garden)
• 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

District of Saint-Jacques

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

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)

Learn more and register

Composter locations

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