LoopWaste, scrap and e-waste · concept design
A milk pouch, a pizza box, a dead battery. Three answers.
Milk pouch500 ml, LDPE film
Dry waste bin
Rinse, shake it dry, squash it flat.
Tuesday 22 Sept, 7 amWard 173 · Adyar
Pizza box12 inch, corrugated kraft
Tear the lid off — dry
The clean lid is cardboard. Flatten it.
The greasy base — wet
Oil and cheese ruin a whole bale. It composts instead.
Lid Tuesday · base tomorrowWard 173 · Adyar · wet round at 6:30 am
Inverter battery12 V lead-acid, 28 kg
Never in a bin
Don't open it or tip it. Carry it flat, terminals up.
Dealer take-back, or drop pointLoop Point, Indira Nagar · 1.2 km
9:41
Point at the item
Matched in 0.4 s92% confident
Tetra Pak carton
1 litre · paper, plastic and foil
Dry waste bin
Collected Tuesday 22 Sept, 7 am
Three things first
1Rinse. Last of the washing-up water is enough.
2Flatten. Push the two top corners in, then press.
3Keep it dry. A wet one is pulled out of the bale.
Not a carton? Search 1,840 everyday items by name.
Cartons sell with cardboard
₹8 a kg on this week’s boardAdd to pickup
Scan
Sell scrap
Drop points
Building
Ward 173 · Adyar · 1,840 items answered
A Goat Scale concept
Flat B-204, Thursday night, Adyar
It all goes in one bag, because nobody ever says which one.
38bags in June
Twenty-four flats, one chute, one lorry to the Perungudi dump. Not one bag was sorted, and the scrap dealer’s rate was whatever he said that morning.
Where each one actually belongedWard 173 · Adyar
NewspapersSold, ₹14 a kg
Pizza boxLid dry, base wet
Milk pouchesDry bin, Tuesday
Juice cartonDry bin, Tuesday
CFL bulbDrop point only
Old laptopWipe, then drop
Point the camera. Get an answer, not a lecture.
The bin, in the bin’s colour, with the day this ward actually collects it.
A confidence figure, and a way out of it when the camera gets it wrong.
1,840 items
Answered for Ward 173 — not for a country, not for the internet.
9:41
Point at the item
Matched in 0.4 s92% confident
Tetra Pak carton
1 litre · paper, plastic and foil
Dry waste bin
Collected Tuesday 22 Sept, 7 am
Three things first
1Rinse. Last of the washing-up water is enough.
2Flatten. Push the two top corners in, then press.
3Keep it dry. A wet one is pulled out of the bale.
Not a carton? Search 1,840 everyday items by name.
Cartons sell with cardboard
₹8 a kg on this week’s boardAdd to pickup
Scan
Sell scrap
Drop points
Building
The rate is on the board before he knocks.
9:41
Sell scrap
Ward board · 14 September
Rates fixed for 7 days
ASArun Scrap Traders4.7· 112 pickups
Weighs at your door on a stamped scale.
What you are selling4 lines
Newspaper₹14 a kg · you have 12.5 kg₹175
Cardboard and cartons₹8 a kg · you have 9 kg₹72
Iron₹28 a kg · you have 4.5 kg₹126
Soft plastic₹6 a kg · you have 2 kg₹12
Estimate for 28 kgHis stamped scale sets the amount.₹385
Your slotSaturday 19 Sept, 10 amChange
Confirm Saturday pickup
Paid in cash at the door
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Building
Arun Scrap Traders4.7
Newspaper₹14 × 12.5 kg₹175
Cardboard and cartons₹8 × 9 kg₹72
Iron₹28 × 4.5 kg₹126
Soft plastic₹6 × 2 kg₹12
Estimate for 28 kg₹385
Picked up Saturday 19 Sept, 10–11 am
Also on this week’s boardNot in this pickup
Aluminium₹95 a kg
Brass₹360 a kg
Glass bottles₹2 a kg
Car battery₹95 a kg
Four lines, each rate times each weight. The total is arithmetic you can check.
The estimate is yours. The dealer’s stamped scale decides the amount, and you watch the reading.
Three places that will take it, and what each one takes.
Distance, opening hours and the date someone from Loop last stood there.
Wipe it before you leave home
1Sign out of every account on it
2Copy anything you still want
3Erase the drive, then check it boots to setup
No collection centre does this for you, and none of them promises to.
Ward 173 Collection CentreNo. 173-4412
Laptop, 20162.4 kg
Two CFL bulbs0.3 kg
Handed over18 Sept 2026
Keep it. It is the only proof the laptop left your hands.
A person answers on 1800 121 5173.
9:41
Drop points
Adyar · 3 verified within 7 km
E-waste & hazardous
3rd Cross Street, Adyar · walking and bus routes
Who takes whatVisited by our team
1
Loop Point, Indira Nagar1.2 km
Mon–Sat, 9 am – 7 pm
BatteriesCFL and tubesPhones
Walk-in, no minimum · Checked 11 Sept
2
Ward 173 Collection Centre2.8 km
Mon–Sat, 8 am – 4 pm
Laptops and monitorsPaintMedicine
Weighed receipt given · Checked 11 Sept
3
Greenspan Recyclers, Perungudi6.4 km
Mon–Fri, 10 am – 6 pm
Inverter batteriesBulk e-waste
5 kg and above · pays ₹95 a kg · Checked 4 Sept
Erase the laptop before you leave home
Not sure? Call 1800 121 5173, 8 am – 8 pm.
Scan
Sell scrap
Drop points
Building
What twenty-four flats managed in one month.
Ward 173, every weekWet daily 6:30–8:30 · dry Tuesdays · hazardous first Saturday
MWet
TDry
WWet
TWet
FWet
SHazard
SWet
₹1,183
into the building fund this month
102 kg of the 214 sold at the gate — paper, plastic, metal and glass, weighed in front of the secretary.
24
bags to the dump this month
38
bags in June, before Loop
Loop · a Goat Scale concept
Six streams, and they add up to the headline number. Nothing is rounded into “other”.
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Kadamba Apartments
24 flats · Adyar · September 2026
Month to date
214kg
kept out of the landfill this month.
Where it wentadds to 214 kg
Wet waste, composted96 kg
38 kg back as compost
Paper and cardboard43 kg
₹473 at ₹11 a kg
Plastic28 kg
₹168 at ₹6 a kg
Metal24 kg
₹528 at ₹22 a kg
E-waste and batteries16 kg
3 drop-offs, all receipted
Glass7 kg
₹14 at ₹2 a kg
102 kg sold as scrap — ₹1,183 to the fund.
Ward 173 collection daysTell the ward desk
Wet waste
Every morning
6:30 – 8:30 am
Dry waste
Tuesdays
From 7:00 am
Hazardous
First Saturday
9 – 11 am
Your flat B-204 sent 11.2 kg · building average 8.9 kg
Scan
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Drop points
Building
One object. One answer. One date.
Pizza box12 inch, corrugated kraft
Tear the lid off — dry
The clean lid is cardboard. Flatten it.
The greasy base — wet
Oil and cheese ruin a whole bale. It composts instead.
Lid Tuesday · base tomorrowWard 173 · Adyar · wet round at 6:30 am
One greasy box can down-grade 40 kg of baled cardboard.
Shown here at twice the size it appears in the app. There are 1,840 everyday items behind it, each answered for this ward.
The lid is clean cardboard and sells at ₹8 a kg. The base has oil in it, and oil ruins a whole bale — so it composts instead.
1
The object is drawn, not named
You recognise a pizza box faster than you read the words “corrugated kraft”.
2
The verdict is a colour block
Green dry, blue wet, ochre never-in-a-bin. Two blocks when the thing splits in two.
3
The day is part of the answer
“Dry waste bin” is useless without “Tuesday, 7 am, in this ward”.
Five more, same card
Milk pouchDry waste bin
Tetra Pak cartonDry waste bin
Inverter batteryNever in a bin
CFL bulbNever in a bin
LaptopE-waste drop point
You were never careless. You were just never told.
Loop gives every object in your house a bin, a day and a price — for your ward, not for the internet.
Milk pouch, 500 ml
Dry waste bin
Tuesdays, 7 am
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LoopKadamba Apartments · Adyar · September 2026
214kg
left this building last month and did not go to the dump.
96
43
28
24
16
7
96kgWet waste, composted38 kg back as compost
43kgPaper and cardboard₹473 at ₹11 a kg
28kgPlastic₹168 at ₹6 a kg
24kgMetal₹528 at ₹22 a kg
16kgE-waste and batteries3 drop-offs, all receipted
7kgGlass₹14 at ₹2 a kg
24 flats
One chute, one wet bin, one dry bin.
102 kg sold
₹1,183 into the building fund, weighed at the gate.
24 bags
Went to the dump this month. In June it was 38.
Loop · waste, scrap and e-waste, answered for your ward.A Goat Scale concept
LoopDesign system v1 · Waste, scrap and e-waste
Pulp#EFEAE0
The default field
Ink#18211C
Type, rules, the one button
Leaf green#17A05A
Dry, recyclable, the brand
Slate#3C5D77
Wet waste, only ever wet
Ochre#C8871B
Hazardous and e-waste
Paper#FBF9F4
Cards and screens
214 kg
Manrope 800 · every weight, price and heading
Dry waste bin
Collected Tuesday 22 Sept, 7 am
Public Sans 500 for everything you read standing at a bin: 14 px floor in app, plain words, tabular figures so kilos and rupees line up.
Two families · 8 pt grid · 44 px targets
Dry · TuesdaysWet · every morningDrop point only₹385 estimateRates fixed for 7 days
Confirm Saturday pickupChange
Ten icons on a 24 px grid · 1.9 px strokes, round caps
Tetra Pak carton1 litre · paper, plastic and foil
Dry waste bin
Rinse, push the corners in, flatten. It has to go out dry.
Tuesday 22 Sept, 7 amWard 173 · Adyar
Baled with cardboard at ₹8 a kg. A wet carton gets left behind.
The item card at 1x. Object, verdict block in the bin’s colour, then the day. It never appears without a date.
Ink on leaf green4.9:1
White on slate7:1
White on ink15:1
Dry waste binPaper, card, cartons, clean plastic, metal, glass
Wet waste binFood, peels, anything oily — and the greasy half
Never in a binBatteries, bulbs, electronics, paint, medicine
Drawn, never photographedSix objects, one weight of line, one light source
Milk pouch
Carton
Pizza box
Battery
CFL bulb
Laptop
Bin colour is never the only signal — every verdict is written in words as well. Nothing under 4.5:1 anywhere in the app.Designed by Goat Scale
Concept 110 · Waste, scrap and e-waste