Love Your Neighborhood - Recycling Days
Edition 2026 Environment Family Ecology

Love Your Neighborhood - Recycling Days

The roaming recycling days across Rome's districts

Roma — Roma (258)
Dates 10 Jan — 31 Dec 2026
Location Roma (258)
Prices Free
Status Confirmed

About Love Your Neighborhood

Every weekend from January to December, AMA brings mobile collection points to Rome's neighborhoods for "Love Your Neighborhood - Recycling Days." This free service, promoted in partnership with Rai's TGR Lazio, allows citizens to properly dispose of bulky waste, wood, metal, WEEE, used clothing, and textiles. It is a widespread civic initiative, rotating through all fifteen districts of the Capital, combining urban decorum, environmental education, and circular economy.

A campaign spanning the entire city

Love Your Neighborhood - Recycling Days is the major roaming extraordinary collection campaign promoted by AMA S.p.A., Rome's environmental services company, in collaboration with Rai's TGR Lazio. It is not a festival in the traditional sense, but a recurring appointment that, weekend after weekend, transforms squares, local markets, and open spaces in Roman neighborhoods into temporary collection points, staffed by company personnel.

The initiative takes place in the Municipality of Rome, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital and the Lazio region, covering all fifteen city districts on a rotating basis: from the historic center of District I to the most peripheral areas of the coast and the Roman countryside. The logic is one of proximity: bringing the service right to your doorstep, within walking distance or a short drive, to break down the barrier that often leads to waste being abandoned on sidewalks.

How a recycling day works

The collection points are generally active on Saturdays and Sundays from 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM, with the number of stations varying each time - from ten to twenty - distributed in different districts at each appointment. Every citizen can show up with their materials and entrust them to the operators, who sort them by type and send them to their respective recovery chains.

  • Bulky waste: sofas, mattresses, furniture, discarded furnishings
  • Wood and metal
  • WEEE: electrical and electronic equipment, small and large household appliances
  • Used clothing: garments, coats, outerwear
  • Textile products: fabrics, blankets, curtains, upholstery
  • Clothing accessories: shoes, bags, backpacks, hats, scarves, gloves
  • Garden waste and prunings: can only be dropped off on Saturdays

Hazardous household waste such as paints, batteries, and lead-acid batteries are excluded and must be taken to the fixed AMA collection centers, which remain open during the campaign days.

Constantly growing numbers

The campaign's balance sheet tells a story of progressive success. From 160 appointments in 2023, it grew to over 500 in 2025, with a capillarity that has made the service part of the routine for many Roman families. Quantities follow the same curve: 2,066 tons collected in 2023, 4,959 tons in 2024, and approximately 6,800 tons in 2025, all sent for recovery.

Specifically in 2025, over 4,300 tons of bulky waste, 1,300 tons of wood, and more than 800 tons of WEEE stand out: materials that, without this channel, would have largely fueled the phenomenon of illegal dumping at the foot of dumpsters.

Beyond collection: reuse and awareness

Alongside the standard stations, the "Together for Reuse" station is set up on some days, specifically dedicated to used clothing and textile products intended not for disposal but for reuse. It is a sign of the campaign's evolution, which has transformed from a simple logistics service into a tool for circular economy education.

The collaboration with TGR Lazio ensures constant media coverage and turns every weekend into a public reminder on the theme of urban decorum. For the involved neighborhoods, the day often becomes a small moment of neighborhood sociality, with residents meeting in line in front of the mobile ecological stations.

A calendar covering the entire year

The schedule runs from January to December, with almost weekly appointments announced each time on the official website of Rome Capital and the AMA portal. Since the list of districts and addresses changes with every edition, it is always advisable to check the updated map of the stations in the days immediately preceding the appointment.

Love Your Neighborhood — edition 2026

The 2026 edition of "Love Your Neighborhood - Recycling Days" continues with almost weekly appointments in all of Rome's districts. From the start on January 10-11 to the summer days in July, AMA mobile stations collect bulky waste, wood, metal, WEEE, used clothing, and textiles for free every Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM, with the addition of garden waste and prunings on Saturdays only.

A year of appointments in the neighborhoods

In 2026, the campaign promoted by AMA with Rai's TGR Lazio maintains the tight pace consolidated in previous years: almost every weekend, a new rotation of districts welcomes the mobile ecological stations. The hours remain unchanged - from 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM - and the service is always free and without reservation.

The calendar for the first seven months has progressively covered all fifteen districts of Rome Capital, with a number of stations varying between ten and twenty per weekend. The materials dropped off are sorted by type directly at the station and sent to the recovery chains.

Check before you go

Since the addresses change with every appointment, AMA and Rome Capital invite you to consult the updated map of the stations published in the days immediately preceding. The fixed collection centers remain regularly open even during the campaign weekends.

Programme Love Your Neighborhood 2026

2026 Calendar of confirmed appointments

  • January 10-11 - Districts II, IV, V, VI, VII, IX, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV
  • March 14-15 - Districts I, II, V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV (with "Together for Reuse" station Sunday 15 in District VII, via Anzio)
  • April 11-12 - Districts I, II, III, IV, V, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV
  • April 26 (Sunday only) - Districts II, V, VIII, IX, X, XIII, XIV, XV
  • May 9-10 - Districts I, II, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV
  • May 16-17 - Districts I, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV
  • May 23-24 - Districts I, II, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, XIV, XV
  • May 30 (Saturday only) - Districts III, IV, X, XII, XIII, XV
  • June 6-7 - 16 stations: Saturday in Districts II, IV, VII, VIII, X, XV; Sunday in Districts I, IV, V, VI, VII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV
  • June 13-14 - Districts I, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, XI, XIII, XIV, XV
  • July 4-5 - collection of bulky waste, textiles, WEEE, and wood
  • July 11-12 - 17 extraordinary collection points
  • July 18-19 - 12 stations in Districts V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XIII, XIV, XV (5 on Saturday, 7 on Sunday)

Hours

All stations are active from 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM, both Saturday and Sunday.

Materials accepted

  • Bulky waste (sofas, mattresses, furniture)
  • Wood and metal
  • WEEE - electrical and electronic equipment
  • Used clothing: garments, coats, outerwear
  • Textile products: fabrics, blankets, curtains, upholstery
  • Accessories: shoes, bags, backpacks, hats, scarves, gloves
  • Garden waste and prunings: only on Saturdays

Excluded materials

Paints, batteries, and lead-acid batteries are not accepted at mobile stations and must be taken to fixed AMA collection centers.

The calendar continues in the following months with new appointments announced progressively on the Rome Capital website.

Highlights Love Your Neighborhood 2026

  • Free service without reservation in all fifteen districts of Rome
  • Over 500 appointments a year, with rotating stations every weekend
  • "Together for Reuse" station dedicated to clothing and textiles intended for reuse
  • Drop-off also possible for garden waste and prunings on Saturdays
  • Collaboration with Rai's TGR Lazio for environmental awareness
  • Fixed AMA collection centers open in parallel for hazardous household waste

Prices Love Your Neighborhood 2026

Entry and drop-off are <strong>completely free</strong>. The service is reserved for domestic users of Rome Capital and does not require a reservation: simply show up at the station during opening hours, from 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM.

Practical information — Love Your Neighborhood

Where and when

Mobile collection points are set up on a rotating basis in the fifteen districts of Rome Capital, generally on Saturdays and Sundays from 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM. The list of addresses changes with each appointment and is published on the Rome Capital website and on amaroma.it in the preceding days.

Costs

The service is completely free for citizens residing in Rome. No reservation is required: simply show up during opening hours with the materials to be dropped off.

What to bring and what not

You can drop off bulky waste, wood, metal, WEEE, used clothing, textiles, and accessories; garden waste and prunings only on Saturdays. We do not accept paints, batteries, and lead-acid batteries, which must be delivered to AMA collection centers, which are regularly open even during the campaign days.

How to get there

Each station is designed to be reachable on foot from the reference neighborhood; for bulky materials, a car is obviously recommended. Rome is served by metro lines A, B, B1, and C, regional railways, and a dense network of ATAC buses.

Alternatives

Those who cannot reach the stations can use the AMA home bulky waste collection service or go to the fixed collection centers distributed throughout the city. Information at the AMA number +39 06 51169.

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Postazioni mobili nei Municipi di Roma Capitale

Contact Love Your Neighborhood

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+39 06 51169

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