MetalSmart
Smart Waste
Sensor-guided bins and on-demand collection for a 300-acre office campus — trucks roll only when bins are actually full.
Overview
Half-empty bins, fully-loaded costs
The campus ran fixed daily rounds across 120 outdoor stations. Most bins were half empty; a few overflowed by lunch. Fuel, labor and complaints all ran high for no good reason.
Wasteward fitted every station with fill-level sensors and rebuilt the schedule around live data instead of habit.
Our approach
Sensors report fill levels every hour. Dispatch software clusters full and nearly-full stations into tight routes each morning, and overflow alerts reroute a truck the same day.
Facilities staff see the same dashboard we do, so seasonal patterns — events, semester peaks — get planned instead of reacted to.
Deliverables
- 120 sensor-equipped sorting stations
- Live fill-level dashboard for facilities
- Dynamic routing with same-day overflow response
- Quarterly efficiency and emissions reports
Results and outcome
- Collection mileage cut roughly in half within the first semester
- Overflow reports dropped to isolated event days
- Facilities team plans event coverage from live data
- Model now offered to two more campuses in the county
