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Nonprofit · Pickup · Drop-off · Free · Booking needed

Emmaüs Défi: collecte à domicile et dons

Free home collection across Paris of furniture, working appliances, clothes, books and household things, or drop off at Riquet. They ask for seven to ten days' notice.

Right for you if

  • Furniture and appliances in good condition, when you can plan a week or two ahead.
  • It has to cost nothing.
  • You cannot move it yourself. They come and collect.
  • You can get it there under your own steam.
  • You would rather it was used again than buried.

Look elsewhere if

  • You need it gone today.
  • It is broken, dirty or missing parts.
  • It is more than a household quantity.
  • It is business waste.

Contact and booking

Phone
09 70 81 89 60
Email
Not published
Book online
Not published
Address
Not published
Opening hours
Not published
Website
Official website

Verification

Checked against a published source

Last checked 18 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 Paris.

Something wrong here?

Why use it

A thing that still works never becomes waste, and Emmaüs Défi is a work-integration organisation, so the collection does two jobs. Furniture must be sound. They are specific about that.

Good for

  • furniture
  • appliances
  • electronics
  • clothes
  • textiles
  • books
  • toys
  • other items

How it works

How you use it They collect, or you can take it there yourself.
Cost Free.
Booking Arrange it with them either way.
Service area Paris
Run by Emmaüs Défi, a nonprofit

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

    Arrange it with them either way.

  • 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

    By appointment only · Must be clean and working · Household quantities only · Households only

  • Who it's for

    Their pages

    Households, not businesses.

  • Last checked

    Pipeline

    18 August 2026

    Checked against their published pages.

What happens to it

  • Donated to an organisation that will use 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.

Tell us what happened

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