The Pointe-Saint-Charles Éco-quartier promotes environmental action and environmental citizenship among residents of the Pointe-Saint-Charles and Little Burgundy districts by encouraging them to work to improve the quality of life in their neighbourhood.

The program focuses its activity on:

  • the 3RV (reduce, reuse, recycle, valorize);
  • beautification;
  • cleanliness;
  • nature in town.

The Pointe-Saint-Charles Éco-quartier works with community groups, residences, buildings, businesses and institutions. Program officials also take part in other YMCA activities for youth.

The Pointe-Saint-Charles Éco-quartier is administered by the Pointe-Saint-Charles Y centre.

The Éco-quartier program is an environmentally-oriented initiative created in 1995 by the City of Montreal. The program provides financial support to community organizations wishing to take neighbourhood or borough-wide environmental action, including cleanup, ecological waste management, and beautification and improvement of the natural environment.

Our objectives:

  • Reduce the quantity of waste in the district that goes to landfills.
  • Improve cleanliness and promote beautification of the neighbourhood.
  • Make residents aware of the important part they play in improving the quality of their neighbourhood environment.
  • Reduce the amount of waste by encouraging recycling.
  • Promote reduced consumption and reuse of consumer products.
  • Improve the visual quality of the urban landscape.

Our initiatives:

The Pointe-Saint-Charles Éco-quartier program has a number of projects:

  • recycling encouraged by all neighbourhood businesses and buildings;
  • management of four community composting sites set up recently;
  • citizens’ committees;
  • workshops, lectures and training on the environment;
  • cleanup drives and tree planting;
  • administrative support to eight community gardens as part of a concerted food safety initiative, with 200 participants currently in the project;
  • door-to-door canvassing to raise awareness of different aspects of the program;
  • distribution of recycling bins to residents;
  • application for funding and grants to intensify and diversify initiatives.

For more information, please contact Pascale Fleury at the Pointe-Saint-Charles Y centre,
514 935-4711 ext. 233.