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Cure Afvalbeheer Fill-Level Sensors for Underground Waste Containers

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Cure Afvalbeheer, the shared waste authority for Eindhoven, Geldrop-Mierlo and Valkenswaard, began fitting 1,200 underground waste containers with BWaste fill-level sensors after a 2015 tender. Sensors relay fill data by SIM card to a routing system, so trucks only visit containers that are actually full. Eindhoven, with roughly three-quarters of the shared area's population, hosts most of the network.

Live 📅 since 2015
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence📰 Mediagrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byCure Afvalbeheer
Scale🗺️ Regional
FundingPublic budgets of the three participating municipalities via Cure Afvalbeheer (gemeenschappelijke regeling).
🌱 EnvironmentWaste & recyclingSensors & IoT

Sources

↗ Change.inc, 'Slimme afvalcontainers Eindhoven besparen 24 procent CO2' (trade press)2015-11-17: BWaste won Cure Afvalbeheer's tender to fit fill-level sensors to all 1,200 underground containers across Eindhoven, Geldrop-Mierlo and Valkenswaard; carries the 24%/29%/34% savings figures attributed only to 'the parties', no methodology stated.
↗ Cure Afvalbeheer, official site (operator)Operator's own page on underground containers and fill-level sensing (SIM-card fill sensors feeding the collection planning system).
↗ Gemeente Valkenswaard, 'Extra maatregelen tegen bijzetafval bij ondergrondse containers'Dated 2026-06-17; confirms Cure and the municipality have run fill-level monitoring 'for years' and the network is still in day-to-day operation in 2026.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Cure Afvalbeheer Fill-Level Sensors for Underground Waste Containers” — Eindhoven, Netherlands. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/eindhoven-cure-smart-waste-sensors/ (last verified 2026-08-10). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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