Sorting bulky items
Before you throw things away, think about reuse!
The Je donne au lieu de jeter platform offers, in just a few clicks, solutions for giving them a second life. For further information on reuse, go to the "Reduce my waste" section (add link to the section in question).
For certain used items, distributors are obliged to take them back, even when purchased online (for example, you can drop off your used fridge at the store where you bought it).
You then have 2 choices:
- Take back the used product when you buy an equivalent product (for example: when you buy a new fridge to replace the old one): the "1 for 1" take-back.
- Take back the used product at no cost and with no obligation to buy in return.
If not, first give preference to drop-off at a waste collection center, which limits the clutter of public space and allows for better recovery.
What types of waste are concerned?
What you can drop off:
In single pieces limited to 1m3, 2m in its largest dimension, and not exceeding 50kg:
- Small electrical and electronic appliances, household appliances, audiovisual (TV, computer screens...),
- Bicycles,
- Litter,
- Furniture,
- Planks,
- Tools,
- Garden equipment,
- Hobby equipment,
- Scrap,
- Bulky packaging.
What you CANNOT drop off:
- Gas cylinders,
- Special household waste: acids, liquid solvents (thinners, stain removers....),
- Nitrous oxide
- Pasty products (paints, oils),
- Tires,
- Batteries,
- Building products and materials from the construction sector (earth, concrete, cement, plaster, structural elements, pipes...)
- Glass and mirrors,
- Pallets,
- Waste from a professional activity.
Bulky goods collection
On fixed days in Montpellier
To find out the day of collection in your area, enter your address in the search bar at the top right of the map below:
Please remember to put out your containers or bulky waste the evening before the morning collection or before 7pm for the evening collection.
By telephone appointment
Municipalities east of Montpellier:
- Baillargues
- Beaulieu
- Castelnau-le-Lez
- Castries
- Clapiers
- Jacou
- Le Crès
- Montferrier-sur-Lez
- Montaud
- Prades-le-Lez
- Restinclières
- Saint-Brès
- Saint Drézéry
- Saint Géniès-des-Mourgues
- Sussargues
- Vendargues
Appointment number: 04 34 81 90 10
Municipalities west of Montpellier:
- Cournonsec
- Cournonterral
- Fabrègues
- Grabels
- Juvignac
- Lattes
- Lavérune
- Murviel-lès-Montpellier
- Pérols
- Pignan
- Saint-Georges d'Orques
- Saint-Jean de Védas
- Saussan
- Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone
Appointment number: 0 805 280 005
Mobile collection for small bulky items
In Montpellier, the mobile, eco-friendly collection truck passes every 3rd and 4th Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the month, from 8am to 2:30pm:
- Monday:
- 3rd Monday of the month: Plan Cabanes
- 4th Monday of the month: Rue de la Cavalerie (Gymnase des Beaux-Arts)
- Tuesday:
- 4th Tuesday of the month: Place Molière (behind the Comédie opera house)
- Wednesday:
- 4th Wednesday of the month: Place Jean Jaurès
- Thursday:
- 3rd Thursday of the month: Place Albert 1er (in front of the church) - only until 11am
- 4th Thursday of the month: Place de Phocée (bassin Jacques Coeur)
- Friday:4th Friday of the month: Place Paul Bec
You can drop off:
- Clothing,
- Small bulky items,
- Small household appliances,
- Computer equipment,
- Telephones,
- Ink cartridges,
- Batteries,
- Radiographs,
- Hazardous products such as solvents, paints or batteries.
Due to construction work and until further notice, mobile collection will no longer pass through:
- The Arceaux parking lot on the 3rd Tuesday of the month,
- The Place Carnot on the 3rd Wednesday of the month,
- The Parc Clémenceau on the 3rd Friday of the month.
No passage during July and August and on December 25.