How we verify

91 spots across 18 city guides. Every one of them carries its sources and the date somebody last looked.

What we record

Each spot is a single record: who runs it, whether you go to it or it comes to you, what it accepts, what it costs, what restrictions apply, and what happens to the thing afterwards. That record is what produces its own page and every mention of it in a city guide, so a correction is made once and appears everywhere.

Where the facts come from

We record the class of source behind a claim, because they are not equal:

• Official municipal information, a council's own published pages.
• Official organisation sources, a charity's or facility's own site.
• Government registries.
• Direct communication, what the operator told us.
• Verified visits, somebody went.
• Company websites and reputable secondary sources.

Each spot then carries one of: not yet verified, reported to us, checked against a published source, verified against an official source, or independently verified. We show which one on the page rather than implying every listing is equally solid.

What we will not claim

Where a thing ends up is easy to assert and hard to prove. We describe the route as the operator states it, and we say so. We do not publish recovery or diversion percentages we cannot attribute, and we do not carry star ratings or review counts.

Payment cannot buy a recommendation

Some organisations listed here may pay us, for a claimed profile, for keeping their details accurate, or for handling enquiries. That relationship is kept in a separate record that the pages never see. The order spots appear in is decided by what the option is: giving away first, then donation and reuse, then recycling, then municipal collection, then paid removal, with free ahead of paid and better-verified ahead of less. A free council service outranks a company that pays us, because of where it sits in that order and for no other reason.

This is not a policy we intend to keep. It is a property of how the site is built: the code that sorts spots is handed data that contains no commercial fields at all, and a test fails the build if that ever stops being true.

Keeping it current

Every record carries the date it was last checked, and that date is on the page. Old information is the failure mode that matters here, a page that confidently sends someone to a facility that closed is worse than no page. If you find one, tell us.