The bin night reminder

Everyone has a bin story. The sprint down the driveway in a dressing gown, the fortnight of overflowing recycling, the wheelie bin found two streets away after a storm. One good reminder fixes most of them.

One reminder, the evening before

Home Heads Up sends a single notification the evening before collection:

• Bin night tonight — general waste + recycling.

It names the bins due that week, so alternating fortnights (yellow lid this week, green lid next) stop being a memory game.

The wind twist

Here’s the part a calendar can’t do. If strong winds are forecast overnight, the same reminder adds:

• Strong winds are expected overnight. Putting the bins out tomorrow morning may be safer.

Combining council schedules with the weather forecast is exactly the kind of context that makes a reminder worth having — and it arrives as one message, not a bin reminder plus a separate weather alert.

Where the schedule comes from

• Automated councils (like Brisbane City Council) publish official collection data. The app reads it directly — day, zone and bin types for your property.
• Partially automated councils (like Sunshine Coast) publish the collection day; you confirm which week recycling falls on, once.
• Everywhere else in Australia, you set the weekday and cycle yourself, anchored to one known collection date. The app calculates every future collection, including fortnightly and every-N-week bins.

See supported councils for the current list.

Public holidays and changes

Where a council publishes schedule changes in its data, the app follows them. Schedules refresh daily, and if a source goes quiet the app shows you when the data was last updated instead of quietly guessing.

Home Heads Up is a free app for Australian households — no ads, no account. It sends the reminders described here automatically.