My problem

In my neighborhood, we have three different bins - refuse, recycling and green waste. Knowing which bin is being collected week to week involves either navigating the complicated county website or waiting to see which bin the neighbours are putting out. I wanted an easy access solution on my phone.

My solution

Bin Day is an app which presents the bin collection for the upcoming week, having scaped the data from the county website.

Features

• Simple display of the upcoming bin collection.
• Automated scraping of the county website.
• Installable as a web app on both Android and iOS.

How it works

Each week the county website is automatically scraped for the bin collection on my road and uploaded to the cloud for it to be made available at an API endpoint which the web interface accesses.

Example endpoint response

{
"28/09/2023": [
    "Garden Waste Collection Service",
    "Recycling Collection Service"
     ],
"05/10/2023": [
    "Refuse Collection Service"
    ],
"12/10/2023": [
    "Garden Waste Collection Service",
    "Recycling Collection Service"
    ],
"19/10/2023": [
    "Refuse Collection Service"
    ]
}