The dispatch model that runs in Istanbul — a two-sided pickup board, a motorcycle for the small and quick, a van or truck for the heavy and bulky, a fare that shows its own arithmetic — is being taken to ten more countries. Below: what each country's own numbers say, what is already working there, and the pilot that starts it. Türkiye is the home cell; it is already live on this site.
Each colour is one launch. Click a country on the map, or a name in the legend, to open its sheet — the need, the operators already there, the street the bikes have to fit, and the first round.
Map: Natural Earth (public domain) via world-atlas — vendored shape data, no third-party map service at runtime.
These are the operators that exist in the same market — the ones a country team would meet on day one. The next section says what this model does differently; this table says what each of them does well.
| App / operator | Country | Since | Model, in one line | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bintix | India | ~2018 | Free dry-waste pickup, QR-tagged bags, pays the household per kilo. Dry waste only. | bintix.com |
| Trash Panda | Philippines | 2021 | Scheduled recyclable pickup priced by weight and location; light trucks, no minimum. | BusinessWorld |
| Waste4Change | Indonesia | 2014 | Subscription household collection plus B2B haulage in 10 cities. | waste4change.com |
| Cataki | Brazil | 2017 | Matches households with informal pickers; the picker keeps 100% of the payment. | Pimp My Carroça |
| Bekia | Egypt | 2017 | Waste exchanged for goods and metro tickets, collected by the company's own crew. | Daily News Egypt |
| Wecyclers | Nigeria | 2012 | Community collections in low-income districts; points redeemable for goods. | Climate Action Africa |
| Mr. Green Africa | Kenya | 2014 | Pickers registered in an app, digital scale, instant mobile-money payment. | Nation Africa |
| Taka Taka Solutions | Kenya | 2011 | Monthly-fee collection, sorting and recycling for homes and businesses. | Nairobi price survey |
| Coliba | Côte d'Ivoire | 2016 | Plastic pickup by app and SMS; points become mobile data. | GSMA |
| Jumeni | Ghana | 2018 | On-demand and weekly collection plus recycling, booked in an app or by agent. | jumeni.com |
| Regenize | South Africa | 2016 | Voucher-paid recycling collection; pickers equipped with tricycles. | Climate Action Africa |
| Tiptapp | Sweden / UK | 2016 | Peer-to-peer: neighbours with cars and vans move your bulky waste for a price you name. | Radio Sweden, waste360 |
| Rubicon | United States | 2008 | B2B haulage marketplace — 'Uber of the waste and recycling industry'; hired Uber's founding CTO. | Colliers / Knowledge Leader |
| Recycle Track Systems | United States | 2015 | Connects businesses with independent haulers and tracks the load to its destination. | CNBC |
Every other operator here sells a subscription (Waste4Change, Taka Taka), points (Wecyclers, Bekia, Coliba), or a B2B contract (Rubicon, RTS). This model quotes one job: base, distance, volume, and what the chosen vehicle can actually carry — and prints those assumptions under the price.
The alternatives specialise: dry recyclables (Bintix, Trash Panda), plastic only (Coliba, Mr. Green Africa). A platoon takes mixed, organic, bulky, construction and e-waste in the same app, because the household does not have three bins and two appointments.
Trucks and light trucks carry these services elsewhere. Here the default vehicle holds 150 litres and 40 kg — and the app says so, so a 180-litre stop is refused before it is promised.
Dispatch refuses impossible matches and states the rule: not carried by a bike, over the four-hundred-kilogram van limit, district not declared by the fleet. Nothing in the table above publishes its refusals; a marketplace that cannot say no cannot be trusted with a same-day promise.
Everyone else collects per household. A 20-flat block produces 1,200 litres of the same small bag from twenty doors — eight bike trips on one round, one rider, counted by the doorman. That is a different unit of work, not a discount.
No payments, no live tracking, no licence or insurance check — written in the app, not discovered later. Adding any of those is a decision to be made per country, and the pilot sheet below names the question each country has to answer first: who is allowed to transport household waste.
A launch starts as a list of districts and a fleet that declares which of them it covers. The app refuses a job outside the declared area instead of promising it.
A solo rider is a fleet of one; five of them, on five rounds a day, are the smallest unit that can hold a same-day promise. The operator model is already dual: solo and small firm.
The first round is one 20-flat block: 1,200 litres, eight bike trips, counted by the doorman. It is the cheapest way to test whether the door, the bag and the fare are right.
Litres per rider per day, stops a van could not have served, and every refusal with the rule that refused it. A country sheet that only shows the good numbers is marketing.
The dispatch engine is district names and litres per vehicle: a country is data — districts, vehicle classes, the local two-wheeler — not a new stack. That is what makes ten countries a schedule rather than ten projects.
The question every country has to answer before the first round is not technical: who is allowed to transport household waste? In Stockholm, Tiptapp's peer-to-peer model was ruled illegal by the city's environment office and survived by appealing. That rule — not the app, not the bikes — is what decides a launch date.
Figures marked with a single named operator are that operator's own published numbers. Nothing on this page is a projection of our revenue; the only forecasts are UNEP's, and they are labelled as theirs.