Bin Night Tonight is a free, ad-supported web service for Australian households. We answer a single, common question: which bin do I put out tonight? You type your street address; we query your council's own waste collection system and show the next collection date for every bin you have.
The service covers 200+ Australian local councils across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the ACT. Coverage grows as more councils make their schedules available through public APIs or queryable web tools.
Most Australian councils publish their bin schedules well, but each does it differently. Some have a slick address-lookup page; others link to a PDF calendar; a few hide the schedule three clicks deep under a Waste section. If you live in one suburb and have a relative in another, that's two completely different processes for the same information.
We wanted a single front door for the question. Type the address, get the answer, move on with your evening. The site exists to be useful in the thirty seconds before you walk out to the kerb.
The other motivation was accuracy. A lot of "bin reminder" apps work by asking you to enter your collection day manually, which means they're only as correct as your memory of what you read on the council website years ago. We go to the source where we can: for most councils we query their own system live. For smaller councils whose only public format is a printed PDF calendar, we maintain curated schedule data and update it when the council publishes a new one. Either way, the result is a much better starting point than guessing.
Each council uses one of a few common waste-management platforms: Granicus, ImpactApps, IntraMaps, ArcGIS, and various custom-built council portals. Some smaller councils publish their schedules only as printed PDF calendars. When you search an address, we look up which council covers it and call that council's public lookup endpoint with your address. The answer we display is the same answer the council's own website would give you.
For councils whose only public format is a printed PDF calendar, we maintain hand-curated schedule data and update it whenever the council publishes a new calendar. These cases are noted on the results screen so you know the source.
We only query the same public endpoints that council websites use for their own residents, and we do not cache or republish council data in bulk. The site exists alongside the councils' own services, not in competition with them.
The full privacy policy is on the privacy page.
Bin Night Tonight runs as a small independent project. A single banner advertisement appears on the results screen. That is the entire business model. We don't charge a subscription, sell premium features, or take referral commissions from waste service providers.
If the site is useful to you, the most helpful thing you can do is tell a neighbour who's always asking which bin to put out.
If your council isn't listed, your schedule is wrong, or you've spotted a bug, please let us know via the contact page. We add new councils and fix issues regularly.
For everything else, including questions about how we handle data or use cookies, see the privacy policy and terms of service.