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Recyclinghöfe: Berliner Stadtreinigung (BSR)

Fourteen municipal yards taking three cubic metres of bulky waste free per vehicle, plus electricals, textiles, paper, glass and batteries with no volume limit at all.

Right for you if

  • You have a car, a load under three cubic metres, and no wish to wait.
  • It has to cost nothing.
  • You can get it there under your own steam.
  • You want to turn up without booking.

Look elsewhere if

  • You have no way of getting it there.
  • It is business waste.
  • It is more than a household quantity.
  • It is construction or demolition waste.

Contact and booking

Phone
Not published
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 Berlin.

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Why use it

The free workhorse, with one rule that turns people away at the gate: there is no partial unloading. BSR's own worked example has somebody arrive with four cubic metres plus a fridge, and the fridge is accepted while the entire bulky load is refused. The allowance is per vehicle rather than per person, so filling a friend's van does not double it, and BSR's own rule of thumb is that a full Multivan boot is roughly the whole three cubic metres. The other rule that matters is who may deliver: only the person whose waste it is, or private friends and relatives, which is why a paid clearance firm cannot use this route on your behalf.

Good for

  • furniture
  • mattresses
  • appliances
  • electronics
  • textiles
  • clothes
  • books
  • bicycles
  • batteries
  • garden waste
  • other items

How it works

How you use it You take it there.
Cost Three cubic metres of bulky waste free per vehicle, and electricals, textiles, paper, glass and batteries free with no volume limit. Household waste, mineral rubble, sanitaryware and tyres are charged.
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.

Not documented yet. This operator has not published what happens to each kind of item, and we have not been able to establish it from anywhere else. That is the gap, stated rather than hidden. If you ask them, tell us what they say.

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 appointment needed.

  • Typical wait

    Needs reports

    Not established

    Nobody has told us how long they waited. Two reader reports would settle it.

  • Do they answer

    Needs reports

    Not established

    We read their pages, we did not phone them. One reader who got through would settle it.

  • Restrictions

    Their pages

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

  • Who it's for

    Their pages

    Residents of the area it covers, households, not businesses.

  • Last checked

    Pipeline

    20 August 2026

    Checked against their published pages.

What happens to it

  • Recycled
  • Broken down for materials
  • 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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