Wellington Bin Schedule

Goal

Query live Wellington City Council household rubbish and recycling collection schedules through a deterministic CLI with human-readable and JSON output.

Wellington combines rubbish and recycling (glass crate) on the same collection day — there is no separate recycling week.

Use this when

• A user asks when Wellington bins go out
• A user wants the next rubbish or recycling collection date for a Wellington street
• A workflow needs machine-readable Wellington City Council collection schedule data

Do not use this for

• Councils outside Wellington City (try Auckland, Christchurch, or other council skills)
• Food scraps / organics collection (Wellington does not offer kerbside organics)
• Commercial or private collection schedules not shown on WCC's page
• Finding a street ID — the user must obtain this from the WCC website

Preferred workflow

1. Ask the user for their WCC street ID if not provided (they can find it at https://wellington.govt.nz/rubbish-recycling-and-waste/when-to-put-out-your-rubbish-and-recycling)
2. Run scripts/cli.py --street-id <id> with an optional street name for display
3. Use --json for agent chaining, comparisons, alerts, or structured reports
4. Note that rubbish and recycling are collected together in Wellington

CLI

Run with:

python3 skills/wellington-bin-schedule/scripts/cli.py --street-id <id> [street name...] [flags]

Arguments

• --street-id <id> — (required) WCC street ID (numeric), e.g. 6317
• street name — optional display name, e.g. Awa Road, Karaka Bays
• --json — emit JSON

Examples:

python3 skills/wellington-bin-schedule/scripts/cli.py --street-id 6317
python3 skills/wellington-bin-schedule/scripts/cli.py --street-id 6317 "Awa Road, Karaka Bays"
python3 skills/wellington-bin-schedule/scripts/cli.py --street-id 6317 --json

Finding your street ID

1. Visit https://wellington.govt.nz/rubbish-recycling-and-waste/when-to-put-out-your-rubbish-and-recycling
2. Search for your street name
3. The street ID appears in the URL parameter ?streetId= after selecting your street
4. Use that ID with --street-id

Resources

• CLI entrypoint: scripts/cli.py
• API and stability notes: references/api-notes.md

Notes

• No API key, username, password, or cookie is required
• Rubbish and recycling are always collected on the same day in Wellington
• Wellington does not have a kerbside food scraps / organics collection
• Dates are current Council snapshots, not historical records
• Public holidays may shift collection dates — the CLI reflects the current Council page
• The street autocomplete API requires ASP.NET authentication and is not accessible programmatically
• Treat dates as live current snapshots, not guaranteed future schedules