Sustainability & impact
binable delivers waste collection dates where people need them – free of charge, without registration, through every channel. This page sets out which goals and frameworks the platform contributes to, how that can be evidenced, and what we explicitly do not claim.
What the platform delivers today
Figures straight from operations – not an annual report, but the current state.
Two goals binable contributes to directly
We deliberately limit ourselves to the two SDGs where the causal chain is short and verifiable – rather than lining up seventeen icons.
Responsible consumption and production
The target calls for people to have the information and awareness for sustainable development. Collection dates are publicly available data – they are just spread across hundreds of different systems, often with no machine-readable interface. binable makes them retrievable through one consistent route.
People who know the date put out the right bin. Missed collections lead to overflowing containers, contamination and recyclables ending up in residual waste. Knowing the date is therefore a precondition for separate collection to work – the effect itself only materialises in sorting at the operator.
- One dataset, many channels: website, calendar subscription (ICS), open API, smart home, AI assistants via MCP, PDF and a QR code on the bin.
- No registration, no app download, no account – the barrier in front of the information disappears.
- Email reminder the day before, and a calendar subscription that picks up new dates automatically.
- Interface in ten languages, so separate collection does not fail over language.
Sustainable cities and communities
The target names municipal waste management explicitly: the adverse per-capita environmental impact of cities is to be reduced. binable provides towns, municipalities, districts and special-purpose associations with digital delivery of their collection dates free of charge – no licence, setup or operating fees, and no infrastructure of their own.
Digital citizen information no longer depends on a municipality having a digitalisation budget. And it stays available to people who use neither a smart home nor a smartphone: as a PDF for the fridge door, or as a QR code right on the bin.
- Free for municipalities – permanently, with no contractual commitment and no cost to residents.
- Connected once, available everywhere: website embedding, API, calendar subscription and AI assistants with no extra effort for the administration.
- No profiling, no advertising tracking – addresses are cached, not analysed.
- Citable: municipalities reporting against municipal SDG indicator sets can name binable there as a measure contributing to SDG 11 and SDG 12.
Where the platform connects to European rules
Not legal advice, but context: these frameworks all assume that households know when which fraction is collected.
Separate bio-waste collection is mandatory
Since the end of 2023, bio-waste has had to be collected separately across the EU. But separate collection only works if the household knows the date – for bio-waste, paper, packaging, residual waste and the special collections. That is exactly the information binable delivers.
Recycling targets for municipal waste
The directive requires 55 % recycling by 2025, 60 % by 2030 and 65 % by 2035. Those rates are decided by how cleanly waste is separated in the bin – which depends on information arriving before the collection.
Making open data re-usable
Public sector data should be machine-readable and re-usable. binable is that principle in practice: an open, documented API across 30 countries – including where the responsible operator offers no interface of its own.
Accessibility of public sector bodies
If a municipality embeds binable via iFrame or API, that must not degrade its own accessibility. Hence: semantic HTML, keyboard operability, a skip link to the content, visible focus – and a search result rendered server-side that works without JavaScript.
Information as a soft measure
Alongside technology and targets, the EU Circular Economy Action Plan relies on household behaviour. Knowing the collection date is the cheapest available measure in that chain – it needs no new infrastructure, only an open data route.