Când reciclăm? (When do we recycle?)
Civic Tech
Reviewed by OpenAI and published in ChatGPT — plugin in ChatGPT
Case study & materials
The problem
In Bucharest only 2 of 6 districts publish per-address waste collection schedules, and the information is buried in hard-to-use operator sites.
Description
Open-source civic PWA for Bucharest waste-collection schedules: data auto-collected from official operators (Romprest S1, Supercom S2), recurrence rules per street segment, every claim citing its source, and factual honesty about districts that publish nothing.
Result
Type your street and number, get exact collection days per waste type — from official sources, with full transparency where public data doesn't exist.
Technical details
- Per-address search with schedules by waste type: household, recyclables, bio, glass, bulky — every claim citing its official source.
- Schedules modeled as recurrence rules (RRULE) per street segment, auto-refreshed by scraping official sources.
- Push notifications before collection day; installable PWA, no App Store.
- schema.org structured data (Event + Schedule) generated from the real collection rules.
- The About page documents methodology and data limits, district by district.
- Fully open source, published on GitHub (marian5070/cand-reciclam) — available for audit, reuse and adaptation to other cities.
- Documented as of July 2026 — information and figures reflect the state at publication time.