{"id":633459,"date":"2026-04-28T05:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633459\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:27:09","slug":"montreal-ends-mobile-household-hazardous-waste-pickup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633459\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal ends mobile household hazardous waste pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The City of Montreal is ending its mobile drop-off sites for hazardous waste.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Previously, the city offered a mobile collection service for household hazardous waste. The mobile site was deployed around the city to 18 different locations twice throughout the year. <\/p>\n

But it was too expensive, according to a city spokesperson. Cutting the service will save the city $500,000 a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA thorough analysis has shown that mobile hazardous waste collection \u2014 a system established at a time when recycling centres did not exist \u2014 is now far less efficient and significantly more expensive than the current solutions available,\u201d spokesperson Camille B\u00e9gin said on Monday.<\/p>\n

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Why you’ll soon have fewer ways to get rid of your hazardous waste in Montreal<\/p>\n

The City of Montreal is cutting a mobile collection service that allows residents to drop off toxic, flammable, corrosive and explosive waste. Some are disappointed by the end of this service, which they considered useful.<\/p>\n

Now, Montrealers will have to bring their waste to one of the seven ecocentres across the city. There are also more than 450 waste pickup points at locations such as arenas, hardware stores and other shops \u2014 but those are for a variety of materials and vary from location to location.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s less expensive to dispose of hazardous waste at an ecocentre than at the mobile drop-off sites. The city says the cost per ton for recycling hazardous waste at the ecocentre is about $400. At the mobile collection site, it\u2019s more like $2,300.<\/p>\n

Karel M\u00e9nard, the executive director of the Front commun qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois pour une gestion \u00e9cologique des d\u00e9chets, an environmental group, said the city\u2019s decision to end the mobile drop-off sites will make it more difficult for Montrealers to properly dispose of their waste.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no way that some 85-year-old person who\u2019s trying to downsize their house is going to one place for their tires, another place to drop off their batteries, another place to drop off their paints,” he said. <\/p>\n

“There\u2019s only so much you can ask of people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-633459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}