RecycleMap Maps of recycling locations across New Zealand

That’s right, RecycleMap turned 1 on 22nd August!

In that time, there have been 3400 unique visitors, and just under 4000 recycling location markers added across 18 map categories.

I’ve spent probably a bit over 200 hours working on this project in the evenings.

I’ve emailed all New Zealand councils twice, once asking for data, and another time updating them on where the site was at. Responses varied wildly from super supportive to super skeptical!

Also emailed a number of recycling scheme providers, supermarkets, charities etc, and had great support.

…So whats next?

There’s still a few more categories I want to add. But then I need to try my hand at marketing/advertising the site. It’s *great* that without any real advertising there have been over 3400 visitors to the site, but that’s still pretty low, and my grand vision of the site becoming self-sustaining with user-submitted locations hasn’t quite worked out. Maybe with more traffic it will?

Additionally, with almost 4000 recycling points, there’s a lot of juicy data to be analysed. It’s just begging for some spatial analysis to be performed to determine where in the country is best supported for recycling, and where is crying out for more facilities. What this space!