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Environment and sustainability

Waste management

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Each type of waste has its place

There is a suitable place for each type of waste. State your address and the waste you want to throw out and we’ll tell you the place closest to you and its service times.

  • Waste finder
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Green points

Household Waste and Recycling Centres (green points) are where waste is taken that must not be thrown away in the containers in the street. Locate green points and find out about the different types that exist: Green point of zone, Green point of neighbourhood, mobile Green point, and mobile Green school and electric point. 

  • What is a Green point? Cleaning and Waste [Es]
  • List of recycling centres in Barcelona
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Household waste

You’ll find collection points suited to the characteristics of each neighbourhood in the city.

Household waste. Cleaning and Waste [Es]

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Dead animals

The immediate disposal of dead animals (dogs, cats, pigeons) that are in the street or in a private home is a service addressed to both residents and companies. 

  • Disposal of dead animals. Cleaning and Waste [Es]
  • Request for collection. Barcelona City Council [Es]
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Clothing recycling

Recycle your clothes in Roba Amiga's orange containers.

  • List of containers
  • Roba Amiga programme. Cleaning and Waste [Es]
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Junk and old furniture disposal

Use the Barcelona disposal of junk and old furniture service: it is a free weekly service. Look up the day and time that corresponds to your street.

  • Disposal of junk and old furniture. Cleaning and Waste
  • Collection calendar. Waste Finder

Organic waste

The City Council is launching an awareness-raising campaign, as part of the “Zero Waste” initiative, to improve organic-waste collection in Barcelona’s neighbourhoods.

  • Organic waste. Urban Ecology
  • Preventing food waste. Cleaning and Waste [Es]

Environment

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Air quality

Barcelona has a network of pollutant monitoring stations, which enable you to consult the air quality in your immediate surroundings, in real-time. Look them up on the air quality map.

Air quality map. Urban ecology

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Low Emissions Zone

Barcelona and its surrounding municipalities have a protected area of more than 95 km2 which bans any vehicles that do not bear the DGT’s environmental label. The goal is to improve environmental health and cut emissions. Find out all about it!

  • Low Emissions Zone. Urban ecology
  • Low Emissions Zone. AMB
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Climate shelters

Barcelona has a network of over 200 climate shelters around its various neighbourhoods, to help tackle the cold and the heat. These spaces are aimed at the most vulnerable people, such as the elderly, babies, people with chronic illnesses and those with limited resources. Find out more!

Barcelona for Climate

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Commitment to the Agenda 2030

Find out about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the environmental, social, economic and institutional fields and get involved.

Agenda 2030. Barcelona City Council

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+Sustainable Barcelona Map

Check out the initiatives under way in Barcelona to make the city more sustainable. Want to help?

Mapa de la Barcelona + sostenible

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Mobility and transport

Find out what services are available to help you get around the city and discover how mobility is changing in Barcelona and becoming healthier, safer, more sustainable and better-connected.

  • Get around by bike. Urban ecology
  • Mobility and transport. Urban ecology
  • Getting there. Barcelona City Council
  • Obrim carrers. Urban ecology
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Energia Barcelona

Full information on how to save energy, how to contract it and how to generate it to move towards a more sustainable energy model. Find out too about the services offered by the public metropolitan electricity distributor Barcelona Energia.

  • Energia Barcelona. Barcelona City Council
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Barcelona for the climate

Given the challenge of climate change, Barcelona is adopting measures to mitigate emissions and adapt to all the effects the city is already suffering and will increasing have to deal with. The city is therefore taking a proactive approach to tackle climate change right across the board.

Barcelona for Climate. Urban ecology

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Measure your exposure to noise

On the Strategic Noise Map, you can check out your noise exposure levels according to the acoustic situation of your street.  

  • Strategic noise map. Urban ecology
  • Acoustic Quality. Urban Ecology
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