A Perth council could become the first in Australia to take part in a high-tech trial which would see 1500 households have the waste they throw out weighed and digitally recorded.

Town of Bassendean councillors will tonight consider the trial, which could be underway by July.

ID tags would be fitted to bins and scanned when rubbish trucks roll through on collection days.

Cameras would capture exactly what is being thrown away and rubbish would be weighed.

Residents would then be told through a smartphone app just how much of their waste is going to landfill.

A Town of Bassendean spokeswoman told The West Australian the trial was about education, but Liberal Democrats MLC Aaron Stonehouse said having the contents of bins recorded was an invasion of privacy.