A Description Of The Cyclical Waste Collection Process

Waste collection equipment (e.g., garbage trucks) travel from service point to service point using a predefined schedule. This schedule defines which groups of service points are collected by a given truck on a given day (we use the term "route" to define a group of service points that are collected by a given truck on a given day).

Waste service points tend to belong to multiple routes because they can be collected in a different order depending on a wide variety of factors:

A service point may have one truck responsible for collecting recycling and a different truck responsible for collecting non-recyclable waste.
A service point that is collected on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays may be on a different route on each day of the week.
Etc.

Note:

Contrary to metered service points, the service schedules linked to your waste collection service cycles / route groups do not affect billing. Why? Because billing doesn't need to look for a read for these types of service points and therefore it doesn't need a schedule to know when to look for a read.