RealUNSW Academic Calendar. UNSW runs a trimester system — Term 2 2026 began 1 June; three intakes a year (Feb/Jun/Sep) drive three separate move-in and clearout cycles at Kensington, Kingsford and Randwick. student.unsw.edu.au/dates
RealNSW EPA — Local Government Waste Data Survey & Illegal Dumping Research Report. Confirms bulky household items as the most-dumped material category, and that share-house-dense LGAs report elevated kerbside dumping at lease turnover. epa.nsw.gov.au/illegal-dumping-research
RealUniversity enrolment figures (2024). UTS 51,038 (exact, Wikipedia/TEQSA-sourced); UNSW ~65,000, USYD ~73,000, Macquarie ~40,000, Western Sydney University ~45,000 (Dept. of Education Higher Education Student Statistics, as reported via Grokipedia/EduRank). Precinct volume is estimated as each university's share-house-resident share of total enrolment.
ModeledUSYD, UTS, Macquarie and Western Sydney semester start/end months. Approximated from each university's typical published semester structure. Exact 2026 dates weren't individually verified — a production version would pull each university's live calendar directly.
Real10 local businesses, verified via Google Maps. Top Gun Appliances (Kensington), Ice Spice Baby Appliances (Randwick), Vampt Vintage Design (Newtown), Secondhand Furniture Sydney (Marrickville), Orient House (Glebe), Upcycle Sydney (Ultimo), iFixMac (Haymarket), Electronics Today (Lane Cove), Home Cleanup (North Ryde) and The Home Appliance Doctor (Parramatta) are all real, currently-operating small businesses with verified addresses and public reviews, found by searching Google Maps around each university precinct. Categories and pathways are inferred from their listed business type and review content, not from a data feed with these businesses — none of them supplied data directly, and this is not an endorsement or partnership.
ModeledCategory mix per precinct (furniture / tech / appliances). Estimated from housing typology, not measured data: inner-west terrace-heavy share-house precincts (Camperdown, Newtown, Glebe) skew furniture-heavy since old share-houses cycle through bulky items every lease; Ultimo/Chippendale skew tech-heavy as high-rise UTS-adjacent apartments have less room for large furniture; Macquarie Park/North Ryde skew tech-heaviest because the precinct is a business/tech office park as well as a student area; Parramatta/Rydalmere skew toward appliances given a more mixed, less purely-undergrad household composition. This drives which precincts rank top for a given business type — a tech-focused business is ranked by tech mix × volume, not raw population.
ModeledReused/recycled/dumped outcome splits. No public dataset tracks student household discard outcomes at suburb level, so a single defensible split is applied per category (furniture: 60/25/15, tech: 30/58/12) rather than fabricating suburb-by-suburb precision.