Electronics shops as e-waste collection points
Electronics shops scored and approved as e-waste drop-off points.
What it does
Every year: electronics stores and repair shops in your city with the most people nearby, scored by xMap AI as e-waste drop-off points, with an invitation, approved by you.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Kuala Lumpur, find electronics stores, computer repair services and cell phone stores in the area, count who lives around, score and rank them with xMap AI, sort them by fit score and keep the top 25, wait for approval, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
People drop old devices where they buy new ones. Shops near many people collect the most.
Who it is for
Water & waste utilities. Water utilities, waste collectors and recyclers planning routes, winning commercial contracts and keeping services running in bad weather. Every use case for water & waste utilities
Best use cases
- An e-waste recycler
- A city recycling programme
- An electronics brand’s take-back scheme
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Electronics shopsxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Who lives aroundxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
- Score each shop with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Best 25 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Approve the drop-off pointsLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
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