The JunkSpots City Index 2026

Ranking cities would need the same evidence in every one of them, and it does not exist. A number would look precise and mean very little: Lisbon and Seattle are hard to compare not because one is better, but because their systems record different things, one publishes a free kerbside collection with no price at all, the other charges by the load and prints the rate.

So this page counts what we have checked, and nothing else. When enough cities carry the same evidence, a methodology can follow it. Until then a score would be a guess with a decimal point.

How we check a city →