Municipal · Drop-off · Free
BSR-Kieztag
A BSR truck parks on a named square in your neighbourhood for five hours and takes bulky waste, electricals and textiles free, with a swap market beside it you are allowed to take things from.
Right for you if
- You live nearby, you can carry it, and the date happens to suit.
- It has to cost nothing.
- You can get it there under your own steam.
- You would rather it was used again than buried.
- You want to turn up without booking.
Look elsewhere if
- You have no way of getting it there.
- It is business waste.
- It is construction or demolition waste.
- It is paint, solvent, gas bottles or anything else hazardous.
- You need it outside the months it runs.
Contact and booking
- Phone
- Not published
- Not published
- Book online
- Not published
- Address
- Not published
- Opening hours
- Weekdays 13:00 to 18:00, Saturdays 08:00 to 13:00, on published dates per Bezirk
- 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 Berlin.
Why use it
It is the free route almost no Berlin guide mentions, and the only one that is free, near your door and lets you leave with something. Waste advisers are on site, and whatever is still good goes on to NochMall rather than into the truck. The format has one design rule worth respecting: come on foot or by bike, because BSR asks people not to arrive by car. Dates move at short notice, so check the live page rather than a printed list, and note that leaving anything before or after the five-hour window is an offence rather than an early drop-off.
Good for
- furniture
- mattresses
- appliances
- electronics
- textiles
- clothes
- other items
How it works
| How you use it | You take it there. |
|---|---|
| Cost | Free. |
| Booking | No appointment needed. |
| Service area | Not published |
| Run by | Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe (BSR), 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.
- ✓ Named destination
- ~ Stated, not named
- ? Nothing published
- Tell us what you were told →
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.
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Booking
Needs reports
No appointment needed.
The page publishes fixed dates, times and locations per district but never states whether you register or just turn up. Ask BSR Service Center on 030 7592-4900 whether Kieztag drop-off requires any registration.
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Typical wait
Their pages
Not a queue but a calendar. Each district has a published list of dated 5-hour sessions (typically 13:00-18:00 or 08:00-13:00), so the wait is until the next dated session in your district.
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Do they answer
Their pages
Yes, the shared BSR Service Center number.
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Restrictions
Their pages
Leaving bulky waste at the site before or after the session is an administrative offence.
Households only · No construction waste · No hazardous waste · Seasonal availability
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Who it's for
Their pages
Private households, run jointly with the Berlin district authorities. Free.
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Last checked
Pipeline
20 August 2026
Checked against their published pages.
Where donated things land
The organisations this operator names. The linked ones have profiles here; the rest are named on their pages and not yet checked by us.
- NochMall Named on their pages, not yet checked
What happens to it
- Collected by the council
- Passed on to someone who wants it
- Put back into use
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.
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- Won’t take
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- Cost
- On quote
- Wait
- Reply within 48 hours with a non-binding date proposal and transport cost. The wait to the actual pickup date is not stated.
- Where
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- Booking
- By phone
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- Booking
- By phone
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- Takes
- furniture, mattresses, appliances, electronics, and 7 more
- Wait
- Busiest at midday, on Saturdays and after public holidays. No duration is given. Recyclinghof Plus Gradestraße is named as the exception, open 12 hours a day.
- Where
- Citywide
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