JunkSpots

Municipal · Drop-off · Free

Postos de Entrega Voluntária (PEV)

Ten staffed drop-off posts across the city, each with containers for paper, glass, plastic and metal, plus two skips for building rubble and unwanted household goods.

Right for you if

  • You can carry it there, and you would rather not wait ten working days for a collection.
  • 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
Ten sites: Parada de Lucas (Av. Brasil 13.550) · Ilha do Governador, Dendê, Vila Joaniza, Parque Royal · Botafogo (R. General Polidoro 65) · Penha (R. Merindiba) · Tijuca (R. Dr. Renato Rocco 400) · Bangu (R. Roque Barbosa 348) · Campo Grande (Estr. do Magarça 1) · Marechal Hermes (R. Cte. Magalhães de Almeida 217)
Opening hours
9:00–18:00. The city does not publish which days.
Website
Official website

Verification

Verified against an official 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 Rio de Janeiro.

Something wrong here?

Why use it

Worth knowing the name: Rio does not call these ecopontos, the city's term is Posto de Entrega Voluntária, and searching the official portal for "ecoponto" returns nothing at all. Each post has a COMLURB worker on site, and the recyclables go on to catadores cooperatives rather than to landfill. Open 9am to 6pm. Two things the city does not publish, so do not assume them: which days they open, and what they refuse.

Good for

  • furniture
  • appliances
  • electronics
  • construction waste
  • garden waste
  • other items

How it works

How you use it You take it there.
Cost No fee is published, and no charging mechanism is described. The city does not actually use the word "free" on this page, so we do not either.
Booking No appointment needed.
Service area Município do Rio de Janeiro
Run by COMLURB: Companhia Municipal de Limpeza Urbana, 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

    18 August 2026

    Checked against the sources listed on this page.

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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