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Grof afval laten ophalen: vaste dag (Gemeente Amsterdam)

Kerbside collection on a fixed weekly day, with nothing to book. This is the system about four in five Amsterdam addresses are on, and your own day comes from the Afvalwijzer rather than from a phone call.

Right for you if

  • Furniture, a mattress or a large appliance, on a street with a fixed day.
  • It has to cost nothing.
  • You cannot move it yourself. They come and collect.

Look elsewhere if

  • It is one small thing you could drop off yourself.
  • It is business waste.
  • It is more than a household quantity.
  • It is construction or demolition waste.
  • It is paint, solvent, gas bottles or anything else hazardous.

Contact and booking

Phone
14 020
Email
Not published
Book online
Not published
Address
Not published
Opening hours
Not published
Website
Official website

Verification

Verified against an official source

Last checked 20 August 2026

That means we read a published source and it said this. It does not mean we watched them do it, or followed the material afterwards, that is a separate, deeper check this has not been through. How we check →

Sources

Part of How to get rid of stuff in Amsterdam.

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Why use it

Nothing to arrange: you find your street's day and put the material out. Out from 21:00 the evening before, and outside by 07:00 on the day, because too early is an explicit trigger for the fine rather than a harmless head start. Two cubic metres per occasion. It refuses more than people expect, and the list matters: small electricals, iron, cardboard, rubble, chemical waste, flat glass and mirrors, garden tiles, tyres, car parts and soil all go to a Recyclepunt instead. Check the Afvalwijzer even if you are sure, because the neighbouring district may be on the booked system.

Good for

  • furniture
  • mattresses
  • appliances
  • garden waste
  • other items

How it works

How you use it They come and collect it.
Cost No charge is published for household collection: not on the city's grofvuil page, not in the booking form, not in the Uitvoeringsbesluit Afvalstoffenverordening, and not in the complete 2026 tariff schedule, which is where a charge would have to appear to be levied. We report that absence rather than calling it free, which is a word the city attaches only to the Recyclepunt. The annual afvalstoffenheffing is 352 euros for one person and 469 for a household.
Booking No appointment needed.
Service area Not published
Run by Gemeente Amsterdam, a municipal service

Where your things go

A named destination is worth more than a stated intention, and both are worth more than silence. This is the row to read before you book: if your item's row is empty, ask them on the phone and tell us what they say.

Item
Reuses
Donates
Recycles
Disposes of
furniture
Reuses Not published
Donates Not published
Recycles Not published
Disposes of Stated, not named
mattresses
Reuses Not published
Donates Not published
Recycles Not published
Disposes of Stated, not named
appliances
Reuses Not published
Donates Not published
Recycles Not published
Disposes of Stated, not named
garden waste
Reuses Not published
Donates Not published
Recycles Not published
Disposes of Stated, not named
other items
Reuses Not published
Donates Not published
Recycles Not published
Disposes of Stated, not named

Does it actually work

The part no company website tells you. Some of this comes from our checks, some from readers who used the service, and where nobody has told us yet, it says so.

  • Booking

    Their pages

    No booking in the fixed-day model. You look up your address to see the collection day. The same lookup routes appointment-model addresses to an appointment.

  • Typical wait

    Needs reports

    Not established

    The recurrence of the fixed day (weekly, fortnightly, monthly) is only visible behind the per-address Afvalwijzer lookup and is never stated in the page body. Running the Afvalwijzer for one sample address would settle it.

  • Do they answer

    Needs reports

    Not established

    The page carries no service phone number. 14 020 appears only in the site-wide footer. Confirm whether 14 020 handles grofvuil scheduling questions, or whether the "Doe een melding" form is the only channel.

  • Restrictions

    Their pages

    The city itself frames the fixed-day kerbside model as an outlier it intends to end.

    Households only · Not for business waste · Household quantities only · No construction waste · No hazardous waste

  • Who it's for

    Their pages

    Residents. Free, both for the Recyclepunt drop-off and the municipal collection.

  • Last checked

    Pipeline

    20 August 2026

    Checked against their published pages.

What happens to it

  • Collected by the council
  • Disposed of

This describes the route the item takes, as the operator states it. We do not claim a recovery rate we have not seen evidence for.

What readers told us

Used them recently?

How long you waited, what they refused, whether anyone picked up the phone. Those are the three facts no website publishes and the ones the next reader needs.

Tell us what happened

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