- What they are and how to access them
- Addresses and opening hours
- What you can bring
- Hazardous waste
What they are and how to access them
Collection centres are equipped areas in the city where you can take your recyclable household waste. You can enter by presenting your dedicated card
Collection centres are equipped and supervised areas where you can bring all recyclable waste. The centres can also collect bulky waste and hazardous municipal waste.
Entrance by car is allowed using the Ecopass.
On Wednesdays and Fridays, access is allowed to non-domestic users registered with the Albo Gestori Ambientali (Environmental Manager Register) and to domestic users using vans or pick-up trucks (by submitting the appropriate declaration, completed in every part, previously verified by the Waste Office).
The declaration must be filled in on the basis of the form “Declaration for delivery by van”, signed and sent by email together with the required annexes at least 7 days in advance to maccesso.cdr@comune.como.it.
The Waste Office will then forward the endorsed form to the collection centre before access.
Addresses and opening hours
Collection centres are located throughout the municipality and can be accessed during specific time slots
Check the addresses and opening hours of the various collection centres in the area. Use the map to get directions on how to reach them.
| Address | Opening hours |
|---|---|
| Via Pietro Stazzi, 5 |
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(*) On Wednesdays and Fridays, access, both for domestic and non-domestic users, is only permitted with vans and lorries registered as trucks, subject to authorisation by the Municipality. The form can be downloaded from the website of the Municipality of Como. In addition, non-domestic users must be registered with the Albo Gestori Ambientali (Environmental Manager Register) and must have an Ecopass.
What you can bring
A single place for your household waste
We have compiled for you a complete list of all waste that you can take to the collection centres. We can also accept bulky and hazardous waste, provided it comes from a household environment.
- Discarded durable goods
- Refrigerators, freezers, televisions, computers, washing machines, dishwashers, air conditioners, and boilers
- Bulky waste
- Furniture (cupboards, tables, armchairs, sofas, chairs), miscellaneous items (mattresses, kitchens), bulky waste that is not produced in the home, bulky waste resulting from minor renovation work (doors, windows, shutters, carpets)
- Green waste
- Prunings and furnishing plants
- Inert waste
- Debris, sanitary ware, rubble, porcelain and various ceramics
- Iron
- Pieces of disassembled furniture, nets, small objects, bicycles and other scrap
- Wood
- Planks, parts of furniture, crates
- Lamps (fluorescent)
- Energy-saving lamps to be deposited intact
- Discharged batteries
- End-of-life tyres (without the rim)
- Car batteries
- Frying oil and fat
- Used mineral oil
- Depleted toner cartridges
- Glass packaging and cans
- Paper and cardboard
- Expired drugs
- Plastic packaging
- Recyclable hard plastic objects
- Many everyday objects are made of a type of plastic that cannot be recycled together with plastic packaging. Download the brochure to learn more
- Products and containers labelled with hazard symbols and paints in general
- Containers of this waste have specific hazard symbols on the label
Hazardous waste
Pay attention to the symbols on the label
Our collection centres can also accept waste categorised as corrosive, irritant, toxic and flammable.
Each symbol indicates the associated hazard
Hazard symbols are printed on the labels of chemicals and serve to provide immediate information about the types of hazards involved in their use, handling, transport and storage.
