Daily Cardboard Bale Collection at Degraves Street Facility

250-kilogram bales of cardboard collected daily at the Degraves Street Recycling Facility. The dataset records daily collection counts for 2016, provided by the City of Melbourne Open Data.

Use Cases

• Analyze daily bale collection counts to identify weekly or seasonal waste generation patterns.
• Model cardboard recycling volume trends across 2016 using the daily time-series data.
• Correlate bale collection data with other municipal waste streams to assess facility throughput.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the official City of Melbourne Open Data program.
• Each recorded bale represents a standardized weight of approximately 250 kilograms.
• Dataset covers a full calendar year (2016) of daily observations.

Limitations

• The dataset is temporally limited to a single year (2016).
• No column details or sample data are available to verify structure or completeness.
• Lacks contextual data such as facility capacity or contamination rates.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

Operational records from the Degraves Street Recycling Facility.

Time Range

2016

Freshness

Data is from 2016, though the metadata was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Degraves Street Recycling Facility, Melbourne, Australia