Urban Planning, Ecological Transition, Urban Services and Housing

Barcelona has free municipal services for recycling old furniture and reusing clothing items that people no longer wear.

Furniture collections

What can be collected?

• Sofas
• Doors
• Furniture
• Chairs
• Boxes and wooden slats
• Blinds and shutters
• Broken toys

What cannot be collected?

• Rubble
• Sanitary items
• Objects similar to rubble from building work

Each neighbourhood has a particular day for residents to leave their old furniture and junk items in front of their homes. Items should be left in the street on the specified day, between 8 and 10 pm.

Household appliances, such as fridges, washing machines and air-conditioning units, cannot be left in the street and must be taken to the nearest green point.

There is also a free furniture collection service for people with disabilities or reduced mobility. This should be requested in advance, indicating that the person has a disability certificate or reduced mobility accreditation.

Clothing collections

This is a home collection service for clothing, footwear, towels, sheets and curtains.

• The minimum quantity should be equivalent to 5 household bin bags or 3 industrial sized bin bags.
• For people with accredited reduced mobility, the minimum quantity for collections is 2 household bin bags or 1 industrial sized bin bag.

The collections are carried out by two non-profit labour insertion companies, from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 2 pm and from 3 pm to 7 pm, and Saturday mornings.