Bin full? Find the next one.
Every active City of Amsterdam container for general waste, paper, glass, textiles and organic waste. Whether a bin is full, we only hear from people nearby.
14,030 containers · 0 reports in the last 24 hours
General waste near you
How to read the status
- 1Grey means no report. It means we don’t know. Not that the bin is empty.
- 2‘Full’ and ‘still room’ come from visitors. The latest report counts and expires after 24 hours.
- 3The city publishes no fill levels. So we only know what visitors report; every report helps the next person.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the containers come from?
From the City of Amsterdam’s open data: every active container for general waste, paper, glass, textiles and organic waste, refreshed daily. Containers added by visitors are marked separately.
Does FFCheck know if a container is full?
Only when someone reports it. The city publishes no fill levels. A ‘full’ or ‘still room’ report counts for 24 hours.
Why is there no plastic?
The city’s open data lists no plastic containers, so we don’t show any.
Why only Amsterdam?
Amsterdam publishes the locations of all its containers as open data. Want your city added? Email hallo@ffcheck.nl.
Container locations © City of Amsterdam (open data). Map © OpenStreetMap contributors. FFCheck is independent and not a product of the city.
Privacy in Vol of niet?
- What we keep: your report (working, broken or queue; full or still room), the time and which store or container it is about. Deposit-machine reports are kept for 8 days, container reports for 3 days, comments for 14 days. A return point you add is kept with the name and street you enter, a container with its type of waste; the spot is rounded to about 10 metres. Such a point stays stored, even when it is hidden because three people reported it is not there; only when the list is full do the oldest points drop off. The server’s nightly backups can still hold all of this for up to 8 weeks.
- What we do not keep: no IP address, not your location, not your name, no account and no cookies. Your phone uses your location only to sort the list; we never receive it, except the rounded spot of something you add yourself (your phone rounds it before sending). Your browser only remembers the waste type you picked last and which ‘Are you at …?’ card you closed; that stays on your device.
- Against spam: we turn your IP address into a code that expires every day. The key for it exists only in the server’s working memory and is never stored, so after that day a code can no longer be traced back to an IP address. When you flag a comment, confirm an added point or report that it is not there, we keep that code with it, so nobody counts twice.
- Other parties: the map loads tiles from OpenStreetMap, only when you open the map; OpenStreetMap then sees your IP address and the area you are viewing. ‘Directions’ opens Google Maps, only when you tap it. There are no trackers and no ad networks.
- Your own report can be undone for up to 10 minutes. Because we link nothing to you, we cannot find a report of yours later. Questions? Email hallo@ffcheck.nl.