Bin for transporting waste or recyclable material

Abstract

Systems, methods and devices are provided for transporting, tracking and managing waste or recyclable materials, which may include one or more devices for transporting waste or recyclable material. The device may comprise a base; and a collapsible sleeve movable between an open state and a collapsed state, wherein the collapsible sleeve in the open state interfaces in a nesting manner with the base to form a bin for receiving and transporting waste material.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application 62 / 190,055 (FEED-0001-P01), filed Jul. 8, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND[0002]1. Field[0003]The present disclosure generally relates to computing and information technology systems, devices, and methods for collecting, managing, measuring, and tracking recyclable and waste materials and providing feedback on the material collected for the purposes of billing, compliance assurance, performance assessment, and the like.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Many commercial organizations undertake recycling initiatives with associated goals and incentives. However, in the case of large organizations, such as where the material for recycling may be collected from a plurality of stores and locations, with today's limited information technology infrastructure it may be difficult to track how individual stores are performi...

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Benefits of technology

[0125]Methods and systems relating to a smart forklift may further include a forklift; a communication module enabled to receive data characteristic of the unit of material being transported; a logic and data storage module for associating, for each unit of material, information from the label and characteristic data; and a communications module for transmitting label information and characteristic data to an analytic server. Such methods and systems may include an RFID reader for reading a label from unit of material being transported and at least one RFID antenna. Such methods and systems may include a scale for weighing the unit of material being transported. In this disclosure, a scale is any device which measures one or more parameters indicative of weight and facilitates a determination or a calculation of weight. In embodiments the scale comprises a pressure gauge to measure with the hydraulic pressure for raising and lowering the unit of material being transported. In embodiments, the scale comprises an electric scale incorporated in the forks of the forklift.

Problems solved by technology

However, in the case of large organizations, such as where the material for recycling may be collected from a plurality of stores and locations, with today's limited information technology infrastructure it may be difficult to track how individual stores are performing, individually or relative to one another, with respect to recycling efficiency and goal compliance.

A large organization that uses a distribution center for the receipt, temporary storage, and redistribution of goods and materials may be able to obtain measurements made at the distribution center that indicate the total amount of material received in a given period from stores in a chain, but with current systems it can be difficult to identify the relative contribution made by each of the different stores.

As a result, individual stores may not be rewarded or penalized based on their actual performance, relative to organizational goals of recycling, which may tend to cause individual stores to undertake only minimal efforts and in turn tend to diminish aggregate success.

In the absence of the means to adequately track recycling efforts, or in the absence of success of those efforts, some organizations and stores may chose not to implement, or to abandon, a recycling or backhauling program.

However, current systems for tracking such information are inadequate, requiring manual tracking of information by untrained employees and lacking facilities for rapid, efficient collection, integration, and analysis of data of disparate types for large numbers of stores.

In situations where third party providers transport recyclables, organic waste, trash and the like for smaller organizations on the return portion of a delivery trip (referred to herein in some cases as “backhaul”), the difficulties associated with adequately tracking material returned by different stores are magnified, as owners may have no effective mechanism for obtaining information about the nature of the contents of a backhaul trip from the third party.

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