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Municipal · Drop-off · Free

Schadstoffannahmestellen: Berliner Stadtreinigung (BSR)

Household hazardous waste at six of the fourteen Recyclinghöfe: paints, solvents, chemicals, old medicines, waste oil, batteries and asbestos cement. Twenty kilos per type per day is free.

Right for you if

  • Paint, solvents, old chemicals or batteries, and you can get to one of the six.
  • 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.

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.

Something wrong here?

Why use it

The thing to know is that the tip is the wrong mental model. Only six of the fourteen yards have this counter, so check which one you are driving to before you load the car. Unlike bulky waste, partial unloading is allowed here, and staff do the unloading rather than you. Bring things in their original packaging where you can. Night storage heaters and photovoltaic modules need a phone call first.

Good for

  • paint
  • hazardous waste
  • batteries
  • other items

How it works

How you use it You take it there.
Cost Twenty kilos per waste type per day is free, then charged by the kilo. Household batteries, car batteries and mercury are free at any quantity. Roofing felt has no free allowance.
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 · Household quantities only

  • 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
  • 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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