How to get rid of stuff in Barcelona

From the editor

What residents need to know

Where things go in Barcelona

Every option in this guide, arranged by the thing you are getting rid of. A missing name is not a refusal. It means nobody has told us either way, which is worth asking about before you make the trip.

Free at the kerb between 8pm and 10pm on your street's night, or free at one of the seven Punts Verds de Zona. The neighbourhood green points will not take it.

Mattresses go through the same kerbside service as furniture, the city says so explicitly, or to a Punt Verd de Zona.

A fridge or air conditioner containing CFCs is the one thing the kerbside collection refuses by name. Those go to a Punt Verd de Zona, which takes large appliances free.

Small electricals are taken at every green point, including the neighbourhood and mobile ones. Large appliances need a zone site.

Barcelona will collect clothing from your home for free, booked on 010 and run by two work-integration non-profits, with a five-bag minimum. Orange Roba Amiga containers take smaller amounts.

Paint, varnish, motor oil, aerosols and fluorescent tubes are taken free at every green point, neighbourhood ones included.

The words Barcelona uses

These are the terms on the city's own pages. They stay in the local language here for the same reason they do on a form: the English version will not get you to the right page.

mobles i trastos vells

Furniture and bulky junk, the name of Barcelona's free kerbside collection.

Punt Verd

A municipal recycling point. This is the city's word; deixalleria survives only inside the proper names of the seven big sites.

Punt Verd de Zona

One of the seven full-service sites. The only ones that take furniture, mattresses, timber and rubble.

Punt Verd de Barri

A neighbourhood green point. Around 130 of these, and they refuse furniture, mattresses, timber, rubble and lithium batteries.

runa

Construction rubble. Refused by the kerbside collection and by the neighbourhood green points.

Targeta de Punts Verds

An optional card that earns a tax rebate for using the green points. Not needed to drop anything off.

Things that catch people out

• Put furniture out between 8pm and 10pm on your street's assigned night. Look the night up before you carry anything down.
• Six hillside neighbourhoods are the exception and DO need a booking on 900 226 226: el Rectoret, Mas Guimbau and Mas Sauró (Tuesdays from 8pm, collected next day), and the old centre of Vallvidrera, Font del Mont and Tibidabo (Mondays 8pm–10pm). The city says plainly that unbooked furniture will not be taken.
• The kerbside service refuses rubble and anything from building work, and it refuses fridges and air conditioners containing CFCs. Those go to a Punt Verd de Zona.
• Only the seven Punts Verds de Zona take furniture, mattresses, timber and rubble. The ~130 neighbourhood and mobile ones refuse all four, along with lithium batteries.
• The zone sites are free for residents, need no ID and no proof of address, and the Targeta de Punts Verds is optional. It only earns a rebate.
• There is a paid at-home collection that carries things down from inside the home, in under 36 hours, booked on 010. It is FREE if you hold a disability certificate, or have mobility difficulty and nobody to carry the item down.
• Clothing has its own free home collection, booked on 010 and run by two work-integration non-profits. It needs a minimum of five bin bags, or two if you have accredited reduced mobility.

What it costs in Barcelona

What each option charges, in its own words, with the date we last read it. We publish no price of our own: a number we typed would go stale before the sentence it came from did.

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