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Rethinking how people interact with waste.

Turning everyday waste into something

Gamebin clips onto public bins to track how full they get, reward the people who use them and tell the city when to come.

Scroll to move through a day in its life.

It fits the bins a city already owns.

No new street furniture and no wiring. The sensor clamps onto an existing lid and starts reporting straight away.

  • Works with most waste and recycling bins
  • Battery powered, with no cables to run
  • Modular internals that can be upgraded

Six layers, each with one job.

Everything that makes a bin smart sits in one sealed puck.

  1. DisplayA dot-matrix face for fill level, points and the time.
  2. Light ringStatus you can read from across the street.
  3. Compute and radioOn-device AI co-processor, Bluetooth Low Energy and mesh networking.
  4. Power cellAn ultra-low-power design that runs for months on one charge.
  5. MountTamper-proof, shock-absorbing housing that clamps to the lid.
  6. Sensor arrayLooks down into the bin to measure how full it is.

It knows the bin is full before anyone has to look.

The sensor array reads the fill level from above throughout the day. Over weeks, Gamebin learns each bin’s rhythm: which ones overflow on market days and which ones barely fill.

Fill level

Throwing something away earns points.

Every drop lights the ring and adds to a shared street score. Streaks, leaderboards and neighbourhood milestones turn a chore into a small public game.

Street score

Every bin on the street talks to the next one.

Gamebins form a mesh and pass readings along until they reach the network. By evening the city has one map: which bins need emptying, and the shortest route to reach them.

Stops on tonight’s route

What a city throws away, layer by layer.

Cities produce 2.01 billion tonnes of municipal waste a year, on course for 3.40 billion by 2050. Gamebin’s reports show where yours comes from and when it peaks.

  1. 14%Other
  2. 2%Wood
  3. 2%Rubber and leather
  4. 4%Metal
  5. 5%Glass
  6. 12%Plastic
  7. 17%Paper and cardboard
  8. 44%Food and green

Global municipal solid waste by material. World Bank, What a Waste 2.0, 2018.

Start with one street.

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