The rapid rise of the population, together with the rising concentration of people in cities and the growing volume of daily trash, are all factors that are pushing to its limit the ability of Nature to absorb waste. Traditionally, solid trash collection was done without first studying demand or vehicle routes, and route selections were decided by the drivers, despite the fact that the solutions were far from ideal. However, with the advent of the Internet of Things and smart waste management ideas, the concept of static waste collection resource optimization and more specifically vehicle routing problem are being exposed to a fortunate mutation.