Milan residents can select day of rubbish collection online.

Milan’s waste collection agency, AMSA, now offers an opportunity to have your cumbersome items of trash – like fridges or furniture – picked up from right outside your home, mostly without charge.

For a small payment, they will even pick it up directly inside your house or apartment.

Examples they have listed include closets, tables, armchairs, sofas, mattresses and other items, if possible already dismantled. The service also covers electrical or electronic (RAEE) objects such as fridges, air conditioning units, washing machines, dishwashers and televisions. TV sets without flat screens (the old cathode-ray tube models) are qualified for pick up only from inside the home.

The material should be ready on the street (when not requesting collection from inside the home) between 21.00 on the previous evening and 06.00 on the collection morning for daytime service, or between 20.00 and 21.00 for evening pick-up.

To order the service, register on the online portal (if you have not already done so) on your PC, smartphone or tablet and fill in the request form, or call the toll-free number 800332299. Online, you will be able to choose the date and time of day, and the server will also tell you the next free slot. You can request only one free collection every 30 days.

More details and information (in Italian) on the AMSA website.