SecureBin uses your camera and AI to instantly identify waste items and tell you exactly which bin they belong to — tailored to your Australian council's rules.
No more guessing. SecureBin puts AI waste expertise in your pocket.
Point your camera at any item — packaging, food waste, electronics, clothing. SecureBin frames the item in a 4:3 capture window, crops it precisely, and sends only what you aimed at to the AI. Results arrive in seconds.
Powered by Claude on Amazon Bedrock's APAC cross-region inference profile (Sydney + Melbourne). The model identifies the item, selects the correct bin from 8 categories, and provides a one-sentence reason — every scan.
Select your state and council once. Every scan is answered using your council's specific bin collection rules. Glass bins, FOGO schemes, and soft plastic drop-off requirements vary by council — SecureBin knows the difference.
Every scan is saved on your device — image, item name, bin classification, and reason. Browse your history, tap any past scan to review it, or clear everything with one tap. Nothing leaves your device beyond the scan itself.
Only the cropped image, your state, and council name are sent to the backend. No account required, no tracking, no ads. Scan history and location settings are stored exclusively on your device using AsyncStorage.
SecureBin features a frosted glass camera interface with a spotlight capture frame. On iOS, the blur uses the native UIVisualEffectView — the same material as Apple's own apps. Fully camera-immersive with minimal distraction.
SecureBin covers the full spectrum of Australian kerbside and drop-off waste streams.
Landfill items, contaminated packaging, nappies, broken ceramics, soft plastics (most councils).
Clean paper, cardboard, hard plastics, aluminium and steel cans, glass where no separate bin exists.
Food scraps, garden waste, grass clippings, and uncoated paper towels. Council-dependent.
Glass bottles and jars — kerbside glass-only stream in select councils (common in SA & NT).
Newer kerbside glass bin rolling out in Victoria (CRS) and parts of NSW.
E-waste, batteries, soft plastics, household chemicals. Not kerbside — take to a collection point.
Clothes, working electronics, furniture, and books that still have life — charity bin or op shop.
Classification is ambiguous or item-specific. SecureBin advises you to check with your local council.
Bin rules are not uniform across Australia. A purple glass bin may be standard in inner Melbourne but nonexistent in rural Queensland. SecureBin asks for your state and council on first launch and uses that context in every Bedrock prompt.
Your location preference is saved locally and can be updated any time from the Settings button on the camera screen. Coverage spans all states and territories.
500+ Australian councils supported across all states and territories. Select yours once — every scan uses your council's specific rules.
A fully event-driven AWS pipeline processes every scan in seconds.
Camera frames item in 4:3 reticle. Image cropped & resized to max 1024px JPEG.
App requests a pre-signed S3 URL from CloudFront, sending state & council.
Cropped image PUT directly to private S3 bucket via pre-signed URL.
S3 event triggers Lambda. Reads council from DynamoDB. Sends council-aware vision prompt to Claude.
App polls /result every 2s. Displays item name, bin colour, and reason.
SecureBin is an independent application and does not represent, nor is it affiliated with, any government entity.
The bin collection and waste disposal guidelines provided by this app are sourced from publicly available Australian state and council authorities. For official information, please visit the respective government sources: