Public-health pilot
Make collection reliable. Make follow-up visible.
Trashify began with an idea from a public-health PhD student. The pilot brings residents, collectors, estates and municipal teams into one collection and sanitation workflow.
Why waste collection matters
Uncollected and poorly managed waste can pollute the environment and provide breeding grounds for insects and rodents. Reliable collection and follow-up on reported waste problems are practical service priorities.
WHO overview of solid waste and healthWhat the pilot measures
- Collection reliability
- The number of pickups due and the proportion collected within their scheduled window.
- Time to collection
- Median hours from booking to completion, alongside pickups still overdue.
- Sanitation observations
- Resident reports of overflowing waste, dumping, blocked drains, pests and missed collections.
- Service follow-up
- Which reports remain open and when estate or municipal teams record that an issue was addressed.
How we will evaluate it
Our public-health lead will help define the pilot sites, baseline period, reporting categories and follow-up checks. We will compare service reliability over time, report participation and missing data, and validate observations with service teams. District comparisons include the number of bookings behind each figure.
These operational measures help evaluate service delivery. Any study of illness outcomes would require a separate protocol, appropriate permissions and a defined evaluation design.
Data handled with care
Residents see their own pickups. Estates and municipal teams have scoped access. Aggregate exports omit districts with fewer than five due pickups. AI features receive sanitation categories or district totals. Report categories can always be chosen manually.