the answer is: Copy the neighbors.

Double it and give to neighbor

How can you forget its the same day every week. The only disruption is when there is a public holiday that week binday moves one day later.

Now knowing if its recycling that week, thats wizardry and I just go based off how full my recycling bin is or if my neighbours have theres out.

Just look at the phase of the moon, like a normal dog-person.

My city provides a handy ics file that we can import.

Oh this post just reminded me to take the bins back in. Thanks.

Live in an apartment: you don't have to think about it.

Though I can't say how it works everywhere, but here in Sweden all apartment buildings have trash rooms or separate "houses" with bins for everything (food waste, plastics, metal, glass etc). And many have areas of those rooms, or separate rooms, for leaving stuff that isn't broken so others can take what's there. About half my furniture, electronics and other random stuff are from those. I often check mine and the one where my mom lives and have a friend group chat for sharing what we find and don't want ourselves. It's also pretty common to collect stuff there and transport it to places where it's given to people in need, stuff like clothing, entertainment (books, board games, dvds etc.), kitchen ware and so on.

Hard mode - yesterday was a bank holiday.

Nice try. You will not geolocate me based on my bin day

It's published in the local newspaper, but my brilliant wife puts it in a colour coded excel sheet and hangs it on the fridge, and gives our elderly neighbors copies.