About Collecte MTL
Collecte MTL is a free tool that turns any address on the island of Montréal into its waste-collection schedule — garbage, recycling, food waste, and more — broken down by stream. It’s an independent side project built on the City’s open data, not an official City service.
- Where does the data come from?
- From the City of Montréal’s open dataset Secteurs Info-collectes (Données ouvertes de la Ville de Montréal), published under the CC-BY 4.0 licence. Your address is matched to a collection sector, and this site reads that sector’s schedule straight from the dataset.
- Is it free?
- Yes — completely free, with no account, no sign-up, and no ads. The underlying data is open data, and the tool is offered as-is.
- Is the data live / real-time?
- No — it’s not a live feed. The City publishes this data as periodic snapshots (roughly once a month), and this site automatically re-checks the City’s dataset every day, so it syncs within a day of any change. The date the City last updated the data is shown at the bottom of every page. Even so, holiday shifts and one-off changes may not appear right away, so treat the schedule as a strong guide rather than a real-time guarantee.
- How accurate is it?
- The schedule is extracted best-effort from the City’s notices, which describe collection days in free-form text. Most sectors are straightforward, but some have conditional rules (biweekly, seasonal, or based on building size) that are flagged as such. When in doubt, the raw City message is always shown so you can read the original wording. The legal source of truth is by-law 16-049.
- Is this an official City of Montréal service?
- No. Collecte MTL is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the City of Montréal. It simply presents the City’s open data in a friendlier form. For official information, refer to the City’s own channels.
- What happens to the address I enter?
- It’s used only to find your collection sector. To do that, the address is sent to public geocoding services (Natural Resources Canada and OpenStreetMap) to turn it into a map location, which is then matched against the dataset. There are no accounts, and your searches aren’t stored by this site.