A falling-item arcade where you sort waste into the right bin against shifting regional rules, and a single wrong item spoils a whole banked batch.
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How to play
Items drop down five lanes; the lowest one is active. Send it to recycle, compost, or landfill before it hits the catch line. Local recycling codes change by simulated region, so the right answer shifts as you play.
Sort the lowest falling item into the correct bin.
Watch the region banner, its rules change which items go where.
Avoid contaminating a bin; one wrong item spoils its batch (clean a glowing bin to fix it).
Build combos of correct sorts for a higher score before you run out of lives.
Controls
Desktop: click a bin button or tap the lane the item is over; press keys 1/2/3 to sort and Q/W/E (or right-click a bin) to clean.
Phone & tablet: tap a bin or the chute to sort, touch-friendly.
Game modes
Daily (shared seed) and Practice (random).
Tips & strategy
Re-read the region banner whenever it changes, an item that was recyclable may now be landfill.
Clean a contaminated bin promptly; leaving it spoils everything you bank there.
What you'll learn
Sortation teaches real recycling, composting and waste-sorting rules, including how they vary by locale.
For parents & teachers: real-world recycling and waste rules.
Origins
Sending items to recycle, compost or landfill, with local codes changing by region, is waste sorting with its real complication intact.
Varying the rules by region is the original honesty.
That variation is why recycling rates disappoint. Accepted materials differ between municipalities, so a habit learned in one place is wrong in another — and contamination from well-intentioned wrong guesses can send an entire batch to landfill.
About Sortation
Sortation teaches real recycling, composting, and waste-sorting rules, including how they vary by locale, in an arcade format. It is an original, free browser game built in-house.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
