Bin Night Tonight is a free tool for Australian households. Type your address and instantly see which bin to put out and when, sourced directly from your council's own systems. Free to use. No guessing.
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 228 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.
Type your street address. We use OpenStreetMap to autocomplete it and match it to your local council automatically.
For most councils, your council's waste system is queried in real time. For smaller councils that only publish a PDF calendar, we use a curated schedule we maintain manually. Either way, you get the most accurate result available.
The next collection is shown front and centre: which bins go out, on which day, and how many days away. Save your address for one-tap access next time.
Most Australian councils publish their bin schedules well, but each does it differently. Some have a slick address lookup; others link to a PDF calendar; a few bury the information three clicks deep under a Waste section. If you move suburbs or help a family member at a different address, you are dealing with a completely different process for the same question.
We wanted a single front door. Type the address, get the answer, move on with your evening. The site is designed to be useful in the thirty seconds before you walk out to the kerb, with no account, no app store download, and no wading through council menus required.
The other motivation was accuracy. A lot of "bin reminder" apps work by asking you to enter your collection day manually, which means they are only as correct as your memory of what you read on the council website years ago. We go to the source: for most councils we query their own system live every time you search.
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.
Hi, I'm Ali (full name Farzand Ali), a software developer in Australia. I built Bin Night Tonight after one too many nights standing at the kerb wondering whether it was recycling week. What started as a lookup for my own council grew into live connections to more than 200 of them.
I write the guides, maintain the council connections and read every message that comes through the contact page. There is no company behind the site and no content team; when a schedule breaks or a page is wrong, I'm the one fixing it. How the data is sourced and verified is documented in how our data works.
Bin Night Tonight runs as a small independent project, supported by a small amount of advertising to cover hosting costs. 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.
Yes, free to use. A small amount of advertising helps keep the lights on. No premium tiers, no paywalls.
We cover 228 councils across VIC, NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, WA, NT and the ACT. Check the Coverage page for the full list. If yours is missing, let us know via the contact page and we will look into adding it.
We do our best. For most councils, data is fetched live from the council's own system each time you look it up. For some smaller councils, we rely on curated PDF schedules that we maintain manually, so there may be a short delay if the council changes their timetable. Always treat the result as a strong guide, and check your council's own website if something looks off.
Address search is powered by OpenStreetMap. Very new streets or recently renamed roads may not appear yet. Try adding your suburb and state alongside the street name, e.g. Sullivan Court Box Hill VIC, or use a nearby intersection. If your council is supported but your address doesn't resolve, let us know via the contact page.
Check your council's own website first, as public holiday adjustments or service changes sometimes appear there before they propagate to us. If the council site agrees with you and we're still showing the wrong result, please report it via the contact page so we can fix it.
Your saved addresses are stored only on your device using localStorage. We never store or transmit your address to any database. See the privacy policy for full details.
Yes. Bin Night Tonight is a Progressive Web App. On iPhone, tap Share then Add to Home Screen. On Android, tap the browser menu then Install app.
Reminders are on the roadmap. For now, the easiest approach is a recurring alarm on your phone set for the night before your usual collection day. If your council changes the day, a quick address search keeps you current.
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.