Waste Categories Guide
Materials that can go back into manufacturing. Rinse them, keep them dry, and they hold their value.
Typical items
What the platform does
Highest reward weighting. Logged items are routed to verified recycling partners and counted toward your CO₂-equivalent savings.
Anything that rots. Kept separate it becomes compost; mixed in, it contaminates everything else in the bag.
Typical items
What the platform does
The app returns composting guidance and maps the nearest composting point or collection partner.
Items that harm people, soil or water if they reach an ordinary dump. These must go to a licensed handler.
Typical items
What the platform does
Safety warnings are shown before anything else. Disposal is restricted and the item is routed to a licensed handler — never to a standard pickup.
What is left once the other three are taken out. The goal here is to make this bag smaller every month.
Typical items
What the platform does
Reduction nudges. The app suggests lower-impact alternatives for the items you throw away most often.
Textiles are not a fifth colour. A garment can end its life as something reusable, repairable, recyclable fibre, or ordinary waste — so the Textile Tracker decides its route item by item.
Why the categories are weighted
Eco-points are weighted by category impact. Recyclables carry the highest weighting because they retain the most value when kept clean and separate; general dry waste carries the least, because the goal there is for the bag to shrink.
| Category | Colour code | Reward weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Recyclables | Green | 100% |
| Hazardous waste | Red | 90% |
| Food & organic waste | Blue | 70% |
| General dry waste | Yellow | 40% |
The sorting kit
Four reusable bags, one per category, printed with the same icon and colour the app uses. Distributed free to households, schools and estates joining the programme.
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The sorting kit only works if the guide is where the decision happens — by the bin, not in an app you have to open.
Households
The four colour categories with icons, labels and typical items — sized for a kitchen wall.
Schools and eco-clubs
Classroom-facing version with larger type and the sorting game rules on the reverse.
Estates, apartment blocks and compounds
Bin-station signage including collection-day information and the collector's zone contact.