Embedded digital identifier (ID) solution for tracking and managing reclamation

Abstract

An apparatus for tracking and managing homogenous recycled waste containers utilizes a unique embedded digitally encoded element containing specific information that links treated homogenous recyclable waste to a first user through a first single optical tag on a housing, and the optical label link comprises a group association of a plurality of embedded digital coding element containers. The plurality of embedded digitally encoded element containers are in particular categories with respect to homogeneous waste, such as paper, plastic, metal, glass, general waste, and organic waste, and have a unique digital association within the embedded digitally encoded elements located on the homogeneous waste container.

Description

[0001] field This specification relates generally to automated recyclable waste management, and more specifically, to an embedded coded instruction device that automatically assists recyclable waste containers into a reprocessing process, wherein the embedded coded instructions are located on a digital medium storing an instruction set configured to determine automated system instructions for the recyclable waste containers. Background Technology

[0002] Recycling is the process of collecting, sorting, and processing recyclable waste that would otherwise be disposed of as garbage, and transforming it into new products using recycled raw materials. Recycling offers numerous benefits to communities and the environment. Conventional recycling provides participants with isolated components used in the recycling process through a three-cycle process. First, recycled waste is collected and processed; then, processed recycled raw materials generated from the recycled waste are used for manufacturing; and finally, newly manufactured consumer products are sold on the open market where the recycled products can be reused.

[0003] For a city to have an effective recycling system, sufficient services are needed (such as individual bins and secure recycling centers). Some cities simply lack these resources or government support to provide adequate recycling services for willing users / participants. Recycling plays a role in addressing the problem of toxic plastic waste plaguing our waterways and oceans. Many recycling challenges can be mitigated if users / participants purchase more products made from recycled materials. Users need to educate themselves about which items can go in recycling bins and work harder to ensure that recyclable materials don't end up in a landfill but can be reused.

[0004] Recycling needs to be efficient, but current recycling systems are showing mixed results, especially as countries continue to export contaminated recyclables to nations lacking sufficient infrastructure and appropriate recycling hardware to efficiently process recyclable waste. Recycling yields its most significant benefits when it replaces the extraction of materials such as ore or oil at the start of the production process. Currently, the replenishment of recycled materials is primarily used to replenish primary resources, rather than the other way around. It would be advantageous to reverse this replenishment process, allowing recycled materials to be used more extensively than primary resources.

[0005] Recycling is not going well in different countries, primarily because the general public is confused about what to recycle and how to recycle. People can look at most recycling bins and find other heterogeneous waste being thrown into the wrong category of waste that doesn't fit the container. This places an excessive workload on collectors, who must manually and laboriously sort the heterogeneous mixtures of recyclable waste into homogeneous recyclable waste for processing. This contamination of mixed recyclable waste leads to increased costs for sorting and processing plants (plants that buy recycled consumer goods) and for any government that collects recyclable waste. Users / participants who buy recycled consumer goods, as well as most governments, are subsidizing companies that produce the materials and then buy them back after recycling. This contributes to problems within the recycling industry.

[0006] Therefore, a better way to recycle recyclable waste is needed, using electronically enhanced hardware that instructs recycling waste control management hardware to systematically reprocess the recyclable waste already at designated recycling participants, including sufficient collaborative hardware that reads embedded instructions to efficiently generate automated controls for automatically separating corresponding homogeneous waste categories. Summary of the Invention

[0007] According to one aspect of one or more exemplary embodiments, a container includes: a machine-readable optical tag whose optical conversion data corresponds to a plurality of flexible recyclable waste containers; and a radio frequency readable and writable identification device including a memory.

[0008] According to another aspect of one or more exemplary embodiments, a flexible recyclable waste container includes: an embedded read / write element including coded information configured to guide the flexible recyclable waste container from a waste treatment inlet to a controlled path, utilizing electronic and mechanical hardware that alters and controls the travel route of the flexible recyclable waste container to a corresponding location associated with homogeneous and heterogeneous waste treatment.

[0009] According to another aspect of one or more exemplary embodiments, a transparent recyclable waste container includes: a read / write element; and a machine-readable optical tag configured to allow visual external inspection of homogeneous or heterogeneous waste.

[0010] Brief description of the attached figures The above and other aspects and features will become more apparent from the following description of one or more exemplary embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein: Figure 1 A clear and transparent single-use recyclable waste container (22) and multiple recyclable waste container shells (13) are shown according to one or more exemplary embodiments. Figure 2A recyclable waste container (22) and a mobile device (45) according to one or more exemplary embodiments are shown. Figure 3 A mobile device (45) according to one or more exemplary embodiments is shown, which can upload user information (42) to a network (43) for storage in a database (47); Figure 4 A hopper gate assembly or waste inlet (29) for disposing of a homogeneous recyclable waste container (22) is shown according to one or more exemplary embodiments. Figure 5 A flowchart illustrating the sorting of recyclable waste containers (22) according to one or more exemplary embodiments is shown; Figure 6 A main control panel (101) and a database (103) are shown according to one or more exemplary embodiments. Figure 7 This illustrates a mobile device (45) communicating with a wide area network (43) according to one or more exemplary embodiments; Figure 8 A map (104) corresponding to a database (103A) on a main control panel (101) device is shown according to one or more exemplary embodiments, with its uploaded coordinate data location (103B). Figure 9 The map (104) illustrates the locations, distance data (103C), and weight data (103D) of multiple homogeneous wastes on a map (104) according to one or more exemplary embodiments; and Figure 10 A flowchart illustrating the path of a digitally embedded data homogeneous waste container from user purchase to the end of the recycling cycle is shown. Detailed Implementation

[0011] In the following description, one or more exemplary embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numerals in the drawings are used for the same components, and repeated descriptions thereof are omitted.

[0012] Figure 1 One or more exemplary embodiments are shown, including a clear, transparent, single-use recyclable waste container (22), which may be made of rigid or flexible materials. The recyclable waste container (22) may have an embedded readable / writable digital media device (15), which has been encoded in a storage block with specific data associated with a unique identifier or UID (16). The UID (16) may include a Group Association Identifier or GAI associated with a visual pattern recognition element (11) and a corresponding waste category identifier. Figure 1The diagram also shows a plurality of recyclable waste container housings (13) that can accommodate a plurality of the recyclable waste containers (22). The plurality of recyclable waste container housings (13) may include a visual pattern recognition element (11) that may correspond to all the plurality of recyclable waste containers (22) within the plurality of recyclable waste container housings (13).

[0013] According to one or more exemplary embodiments, the MFRC522 integrated reader / writer can be used for contactless communication while simultaneously writing to digital media storage devices using various libraries employing modulation and demodulation schemes. The MFRC522 integrates various types of passive contactless communication modes and protocols compliant with the ISO14443A standard at 13.56MHz. An internal transmitter section drives the reader antenna to communicate with the ISO14443A MIFARE digital storage medium. This is achieved using serial dumps of the UID and proximity integrated circuit card (PICC) type. For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: Serial.print(F(“UID:”)); / / Dump UID into serial for (byte i = 0; i <mfrc522.uid.size; i++) { Serial.print(mfrc522.uid.uidByte[i]<0x10 ? “ 0” : “ “); Serial.print(mfrc522.uid.uidByte[i], HEX); According to one or more exemplary embodiments, the type of the PICC can be checked, and the :: operator can be used to access the const / static members of the class or namespace MFRC522. For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: Serial.print(F(“ PICC type: “)); / / Dump PICC type into serial MFRC522::PICC_Type piccType = mfrc522.PICC_GetType(mfrc522.uid.sak); Serial.println(mfrc522.PICC_GetTypeName(piccType)); According to one or more exemplary embodiments, BoxID (box identifier) ​​and machine-readable optical tags are similar elements.

[0014] The application programming interface (API) can receive a request for input of a UID (16) (e.g., BoxID), whose alphanumeric characters are configured to generate a visual pattern recognition element (11), such as a machine-readable optical tag. That is, according to one or more exemplary embodiments, the machine-readable optical tag and BoxID data are the same alphanumeric value. Any input to the API can be automatically written to a first block of MIFARE digital storage medium that can be embedded in a recyclable waste container (22). For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: byte buffer

[34] ; byte block; MFRC522::StatusCode status; byte len; Serial.setTimeout(60000L); / / wait until 20 seconds for input fromserial / / Ask for BoxID input Serial.println(F(“Type BOX ID, ending with new line char”)); len = Serial.readBytesUntil(' ', (char *) buffer, 30) ; / / readBoxID from serial for (byte i = len; i<30; i++) buffer[i] = ' '; / / pad with spaces block = 1; status = mfrc522.PCD_Authenticate(MFRC522::PICC_CMD_MF_AUTH_KEY_A,block,&key,&(mfrc522.uid)); if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) { Serial.print(F(“PCD_Authenticate() failed: “)); Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status)); return;} else Serial.println(F(“PCD_Authenticate() success: “)); / / Write block status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, buffer, 16); if (status !=MFRC522::STATUS_OK) { Serial.print(F(“MIFARE_Write() failed: “)); Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status)); return; } else Serial.println(F(“MIFARE_Write() success: “)); Applications that write BoxIDs associated with machine-readable optical tags can utilize QR code libraries that convert alphanumeric codes into visual QR codes. According to one or more exemplary embodiments, the alphanumeric code may be prefixed with the characters "CHG" followed by a random integer generated using "random" System.Class.Random. For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: Random rnd = new Random(); var randomnumber = rnd.Next(); tbGenCode.Text = “CHG” + randomnumber.ToString(); The above can generate a random integer and set an alphanumeric code in the GenCode text box. A request from the MIFARE hardware can serially initialize the alphanumeric BoxID value and insert it into the application's serial output to write digital media embedded in the recyclable waste container. For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: if (serialPortDTU.IsOpen) { serialPort1.WriteLine("CHG32185984"); / / CHG+Random Int } One or more exemplary embodiments may use the QRCoder class to generate a corresponding machine-readable optical tag image, which may be saved as an image file and stored in a database as varChar(30). When the UID(16) is read, the radio frequency identifier (RFID) information may be serially placed in the RFID text box, which may also be saved at the same time as the BoxID is generated and saved. For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: QRCoder.QRCodeGenerator QG = new QRCoder.QRCodeGenerator(); var MyData = QG.CreateQrCode(tbGenCode.Text, QRCoder.QRCodeGenerator.ECCLevel.H); var code = new QRCoder.QRCode(MyData); pbQRCode.Image = code.GetGraphic(5); The PictureBox (pbQRCode.Image) image may be generated by the QRCoderClass and saved to a remote network storage medium; saveFD.FileName = tbGenCode.Text; saveFD.Filter = “JPEG|*.jpeg”; if(saveFD.ShowDialog() != DialogResult.Cancel) { string savePath = saveFD.FileName; Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(pbMachine-readable optical label .Image); bmp.Save(savePath, ImageFormat.Jpeg); } When a machine-readable optical tag is created by a random alphanumeric generator, the alphanumeric data can be serially sent to the MIFARE device, and the BoxID can be written to block 1.

[0015] This write event can be automatically generated by the MIFARE hardware device as a second serial request to input the selectionID (selection identifier). For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: Serial.println(F(“Type Selection#, ending with new line char”)); len = Serial.readBytesUntil(' ', (char *) buffer, 20) ; / / readwaste selection genre from serial for (byte i = len; i<20; i++) buffer[i] = ' '; / / pad with spaces block = 5; status = mfrc522.PCD_Authenticate(MFRC522::PICC_CMD_MF_AUTH_KEY_A,block,&key,&(mfrc522.uid)); if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) { Serial.print(F(“PCD_Authenticate() failed: “)); Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status)); return; } According to one or more exemplary embodiments, selectionID output data from an application programming interface (API) can be written to MIFARE hardware, which can then write the data to a readable and writable storage device embedded in or on a recyclable waste container. For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Write(block, buffer, 16); if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) { Serial.print(F(“MIFARE_Write() failed: “)); Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status)); return } else Serial.println(F(“MIFARE_Write() success: “)); According to one or more exemplary embodiments, an application can respond by sending any of a plurality of selectionID categories, which can be stored in blocks subsequently available in the storage medium. The following is an example list of possible selectionID categories: 1. Paper 2. Plastic 3. Metals 4. Glass 5. Organic waste 6. Electronic waste 7. General waste Once BoxID and SelectionID are associated with RFID, other variable information can be written to other writable blocks in the embedded storage medium located on or within the recyclable waste container.

[0016] Of particular note is that the visual pattern recognition element (11) can identify the source of the UID (16). Therefore, a single visual pattern recognition element (11) can have multiple UIDs (16) of different categories (Selection#(16)). For example, a box with a unique visual pattern recognition element (11) (machine-readable optical tag) can contain multiple recyclable waste containers, each with a unique RFID tag. Furthermore, the same BoxID can contain multiple different categories, each containing a unique RFID tag. For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: The box labeled BoxID01 includes: RFIDxxx1, BoxID 01, Paper RFIDxxx2, BoxID 01, Paper RFIDxxx3, BoxID 01, Paper RFIDxxx4, BoxID 01, Paper RFIDxxx5, BoxID 01, Paper RFIDxxx6, BoxID 01, Plastic RFIDxxx7, BoxID 01, Plastic RFIDxxx8, BoxID 01, Plastic RFIDxxx9, BoxID 01, Plastic RFIDxx10, BoxID 01, Plastic RFIDxx11, BoxID 01, General Waste RFIDxx12, BoxID 01, General Waste RFIDxx13, BoxID 01, General Waste RFIDxx14, BoxID 01, General Waste RFIDxx15, BoxID 01, General Waste The box is affixed with an optical tag representing BoxID 01, and the digital storage medium includes a block containing a first RFID tag, a second BoxID, and a third SelectionID. A box can also contain multiple containers of the same category of recyclable waste, with only one BoxID and one SelectionID.

[0017] For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments, a box affixed with a BoxID 02 visual pattern recognition element (11) includes:

[0018] According to one or more exemplary embodiments described above, BoxID 01 may refer to multiple recyclable waste containers (13) comprising three independent categories (selectionID(16)): paper, plastic, and general waste. Each recyclable waste container (22) has a unique UID(16) representing the recyclable waste container; however, multiple individuals of each individual recyclable waste container have an embedded BoxID corresponding to a machine-readable optical tag (11) on the multiple recyclable waste containers (13).

[0019] In addition, BoxID 02 can refer to multiple recyclable waste shells (13) that contain multiple recyclable waste containers (22) of a single paper category (selectionID(16)).

[0020] Figure 2 One or more exemplary embodiments are shown, including a recyclable waste container (22) having an embedded readable / writable digital media device (15) and a visual pattern recognition element (11), such as an optical machine-readable optical tag, as shown in the reference. Figure 1As illustrated in one or more exemplary embodiments. The embedded readable / writable digital media device (15) includes a unique identifier or UID (16) and a group association identifier or GAI, which corresponds to a visual pattern recognition element (11). The visual pattern recognition element (11) may be configured to be optically scanned by a mobile device (45), which may be configured to recognize the visual pattern recognition element (11) and associate it with mobile application user information (49).

[0021] A machine-readable optical tag containing account information (41) on a mobile device can correspond to the same visual pattern recognition element (11) located on the shell (13) of multiple recyclable waste containers. Once the visual pattern recognition element (11) is optically scanned into the user inventory of user information (49), the BoxID and the contents of multiple recyclable waste containers (22) can be transferred from the mobile device (45) to the user information (49).

[0022] Figure 3 One or more exemplary embodiments are shown, including a mobile device (45) with a machine-readable optical tag reader that optically scans a recording pattern recognition element containing account information (41) and associates it with mobile application user information (49). The mobile device (45) can upload the user information (42) to a network (43), and the user information (42) can be stored in a database (47).

[0023] For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments, this information will appear in the dataset respectively:

[0024] In the aforementioned dataset, the user corresponding to user information (49) is Joe, who purchased a multi-recyclable container shell (13) with a visual pattern recognition element (11) attached, containing multiple recyclable waste containers (22) with embedded readable / writable digital media devices (15), wherein the embedded readable / writable digital media devices include at least 3 unique readable data: 1. RFID UID# in Read-Only Memory 2. The BoxID# corresponding to the visual pattern recognition element (11), a writable memory 3. Selection# (paper, plastic, metal, glass, general waste, organic waste, etc.), writable memory User inventory information (49) can be coordinated between the application's mobile device (45) and a remote server on the network (43).

[0025] Figure 4One or more exemplary embodiments are shown, including a hopper gate assembly or waste inlet (29) having a digital reader (25) that can read a UID (16), such as a wireless embedded coded digital data radio frequency identifier, from an embedded readable / writable digital media device (15). The embedded readable / writable digital media device (15) contains information such as BoxID, BagID (bag identifier), and SelectionID, wherein the BoxID contains at least a portion of an alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies the hopper gate for granting access to the recyclable waste disposal inlet via a powered-on or powered-off electronic access device (31) (e.g., an electronic lock). Furthermore, the embedded readable / writable digital media device (15) may contain information that can grant access to the hopper gate inlet (32) for discarding homogeneous recyclable waste containers (22).

[0026] According to one or more exemplary embodiments, the first data to be read is the UID (16). For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: MFRC522::MIFARE_Key key; for (byte i = 0; i<6; i++) key.keyByte[i] = 0xFF; byte block; byte len; MFRC522::StatusCode status; if ( ! mfrc522.PICC_IsNewCardPresent()) { return; } if ( ! mfrc522.PICC_ReadCardSerial()) { return; } Serial.println(F(“**Bag Detected:**”)); digitalWrite(ALARM_PIN, HIGH); card_swiped = 1; Once `card_swiped = 1`, it sets a flag that tells the pin controlling access to the electronic door lock to go high, thus energizing the door lock and allowing access to the waste entry. Then, other blocks are read to determine the BoxID and SelectionID. For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Read(block, buffer2,&len); if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) { Serial.print(F(“Reading failed: “)); Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status)); return; } for (uint8_t i = 0; i<16; i++) { Serial.write(buffer2[i] ); / / PRINT BOXID RS485_BUFF_Send(buffer2[i]); / / Now send BoxID over network to MasterPanel } The digital reader (25) can read the third block of SelectionID information and send it to the main control panel via the network. For example, according to one or more exemplary embodiments: byte buffer1

[18] ; block = 5; len = 18; status = mfrc522.PCD_Authenticate(MFRC522::PICC_CMD_MF_AUTH_KEY_A,block,&key,&(mfrc522.uid)); / / line 834 of MFRC522.cpp file if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) { Serial.print(F(“Authentication failed: “)); Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status)); return; } status = mfrc522.MIFARE_Read(block, buffer1,&len); if (status != MFRC522::STATUS_OK) { Serial.print(F(“Reading failed: “)); Serial.println(mfrc522.GetStatusCodeName(status)); mfrc522.PICC_HaltA(); mfrc522.PCD_StopCrypto1(); return; } for (uint8_t i = 0; i<16; i++) { if (buffer1[i] != 32) { Serial.write(buffer1[i]); / / Print SelectionID RS485_BUFF_Send(buffer1[i]); / / Now send SelectionID over network toMaster Panel }} According to one or more exemplary embodiments, the first block of UID information in the code of the digital reader (25) obtains access to the waste inlet to process the recyclable waste container (22), and then sends the next plurality of blocks of BoxID and SelectionID information to the main control panel (101), where BoxID refers to the source of the recyclable waste container and SelectionID refers to the controller of the transfer process to ensure that the corresponding recyclable waste container (22) is correctly placed into the corresponding larger collection element (115A) (see See Figure 5 ).

[0027] BoxID includes a unique character prefix, such as "CHG" in the BoxID column above, which grants access to the hopper gate inlet (32) for discarding homogeneous recyclable waste containers (22). These numerical data, when recorded, publish their information to a database, such as... Figure 5 As stated above.

[0028] Figure 5A recyclable waste container (22) with embedded digital media (102) is shown, which is read into digital recording, reporting, and control hardware, such as a digital reader (25), and the data is transmitted from said digital recording, reporting, and control hardware to a main control panel (101) via a network. According to one or more exemplary embodiments, the embedded digital media (102) of the recyclable waste container can be read by a digital reader (25) at the hopper gate inlet (32), which can transmit digital information to the main control panel (101) via a local area network. The main control panel (101) can send directional control information to a recyclable waste sorting device (111) that can transfer the recyclable waste container (22) to a corresponding waste inlet (117A) and a corresponding larger intelligent waste receiver, such as a collection element (115A).

[0029] According to one or more exemplary embodiments, a recyclable waste container (22) moves downward along a chute toward a separation element, such as a recyclable waste sorting device (111), which can be controlled by a main control panel (101) that also acts as a sorting controller. The path of the digitally coded recyclable waste container (22) can be determined by a uniquely coded embedded readable / writable digital media device (15), which can be reported to the main control panel (101), which acts as an interpreter of the reported uniquely coded data and instructs the recyclable waste sorting device (111) to change the path of the digitally coded recyclable waste container (22) to enter the appropriate waste bin. The uniquely coded waste containing element (22) is represented by the character A, and its destination is bin A or collection element (115A), so that multiple homogeneous uniquely coded recyclable waste containers (22) are contained in the same collection element (115A).

[0030] Figure 6 One or more exemplary embodiments are shown, including a collection of homogeneous recyclable waste containers (22) in a corresponding smart larger waste container, such as collection elements (115A and 115B), which include a plurality of disposable recyclable waste containers (22), wherein a main control panel (101) can store an event log of each processing transaction at each hopper gate inlet (32) in a database (103) and display each embedded instruction digital media, including but not limited to: :ID can be a transaction ID, assigning an event number to each floor transaction.

[0031] DateTime refers to the transaction date plus the transaction time.

[0032] User can be a registered user of the system. This field comes from the user application that connects BoxID and UserID through a database program. This field can be used with... Figure 4The information sent by the digital reader (25) is irrelevant.

[0033] PhoneID can be the registered phone number of a registered user on the system. This field comes from the user application that connects BoxID and PhoneID via a database program. This field can be used with... Figure 4 The information sent by the digital reader (25) is irrelevant.

[0034] RFID can be a factory-preset UID used for unique identification and can be stored in read-only memory (ROM).

[0035] :BoxID can be a write ID stored in the first block of the programmable read-only memory (PROM). :Selection of genre of waste corresponds to each set of homogeneous recyclable waste containers, relative to its category's color, UID, BoxID, and SelectionID. This information can be uploaded to the wide area network.

[0036] :LevelID displays the fill capacity of the bin.

[0037] Associated with this dataset are the geographic coordinates of the larger bins (115) relative to the bins’ locations, including but not limited to, the locations of bins within building structures, street bins, and other types of bins used for processing waste collections.

[0038] Figure 7 One or more exemplary embodiments are shown, including a user's mobile device (45) that receives waste disposal event reception notifications from a database sourced from a local area network main control panel (101), which uploads the notifications to a database on a wide area network (43) and then forwards them from the WAN server to the mobile device. BagID and BoxID embedded within a disposable recyclable waste container (22) are published to the main panel (101), which uploads the BoxID and BagID to the network (43) and cross-references them with user information (49) from a mobile application located on the mobile device (45). The mobile device has created account information (41) that receives notifications from a network server on the WAN (43) regarding a BoxID belonging to the owner of the user account information (41), which is stored in a database (47) cross-referenced with a database (103) on the main control panel (101).

[0039] Figure 8One or more exemplary embodiments are shown, including a map (104) with pin markers corresponding to coordinates in a database (103A) located on a main control panel device (101), which can upload coordinate data locations (103B) to a web server at the physical location of the main control panel (101). The database includes multiple locations of homogeneous recyclable bins for specific categories, identifying the fill status of each bin type. This information enables searching for specific SelectionID bin categories, allowing efficient, automated route sorting for specific categories of recyclable waste to be provided for pickup using a map application programming interface (API).

[0040] Search map API (Prefix(int)) can recycle paper; result:

[0041] The search results can display the geographic locations of all paper categories that are full and ready for pickup. From here, boxes (115) at each location can be displayed on a map (104).

[0042] Figure 9 One or more exemplary embodiments are shown, including multiple homogeneous waste locations on a map (104), and efficient routes (110) or distance data (103C) displayed in a database, and weights (103D) provided for data analysis of the recycled materials. The map (104) provides a visual route selection including efficient routes (110) for pickup drivers to move from each homogeneous waste location, whose coordinates correspond to the location of a main control panel (101) providing efficient directions, displaying distance data (103C) between each location, and providing a total set of distances for the entire route.

[0043] Each location marked with a P symbol on the map (104) represents an efficient route (110), where BoxID and BagID have been identified by the main panel application, which correctly identifies SelectionID (category) for the recyclable material to be picked up.

[0044] Figure 10One or more exemplary embodiments are shown, including a process from the purchase of a digitally embedded data homogeneous recyclable waste container (22) by a user to the end of the embedded data homogeneous waste container recycling cycle, wherein the BoxID comprises multiple BagIDs of a single or multiple SelectionIDs, which are placed in inventory. A user can first download an application and register once on their mobile device. The application will enable the user to acquire multiple digitally embedded data homogeneous recyclable waste containers (22), distributed in specific multiple recyclable waste container shells (13) with attached BoxIDs. The boxes can be sent to the user, who receives the boxes in the multiple recyclable waste container shells (13) bearing the BoxIDs, with a tear-off label covering the BoxIDs to prevent any possible fraudulent scanning. The user application may have the capability to scan the BoxIDs into the user's account, adding the BoxIDs and their contents as multiple BagIDs for a specific recyclable waste category. Once the BoxIDs are scanned, all content is now in the user's inventory. The user fills the transparent or at least partially transparent digital embedded data homogeneous recyclable waste container (22) with the corresponding recyclable waste material. When full, the user can now discard the transparent digital embedded data homogeneous recyclable waste container (22) into the waste inlet (29) by electronically scanning the embedded readable / writable digital media device (15) at the inlet electronic digital reader (25). This grants access to the waste inlet (29) and allows the user to handle the recyclable material. The data scanned by the transparent digital embedded data homogeneous recyclable waste container (22) is stored on the embedded digital storage device (15), and the digital BoxID and SelectionID are sent to the main control panel (101), which automatically controls the transfer path via a mechanical steering mechanism (e.g., a recyclable waste sorting device (111)) to transfer the waste to the corresponding category bin, such as the collection element (115A). According to one or more exemplary embodiments, the bin sensor detects the bin level for each storage transaction event and continuously updates the main control panel (101) to determine when the bin is full and requires an automatic retrieval notification. This generates coordinates and waste statistics for logistics and sends automated pickup requests to be dispatched to the requested bin location, including but not limited to locations on building structures, streets, or parking lots. Pickup personnel can unload the bags at the recycling plant and scan the tags on each bag.

[0045] According to one or more exemplary embodiments, the use of "transparent" bags is important because color coding will be located on the strapping, and the bags can be transparent to allow for visual assessment of the recyclable contents of the transparent, digitally embedded data homogeneous recyclable waste container (22), thereby more effectively determining whether the contents have the correct homogeneity rating. This unique feature will prevent more bags from having to be emptied and sorted if the sorting facility can see that its contents are more homogeneous than heterogeneous.

[0046] In one aspect of one or more exemplary embodiments, a transparent recyclable waste container has an attached or embedded readable / writable digital storage and retrieval device, the digital information of which includes sufficient information to automatically guide a waste flow control device to transfer the transparent recyclable waste container to a corresponding homogeneous waste treatment plant. The embedded readable / writable digital storage and retrieval device has a corresponding machine-readable optical tag associated with data written into the readable / writable digital storage and retrieval device, which is associated with user participants to identify participation analysis using logistics and statistical data. The embedded readable / writable digital storage device may be unrestricted by waste access points, wherein data located on the embedded readable / writable digital storage device is used in a network for simultaneous control automation and analysis.

[0047] While one or more exemplary embodiments have been specifically shown and described, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the following claims.

Claims

1. A container comprising: A machine-readable optical tag whose optical conversion data corresponds to multiple flexible recyclable waste containers; as well as A radio frequency readable and writable identification device, including a memory.

2. The container of claim 1, wherein the optical conversion data includes a unique container identifier, and The machine-readable optical tag mentioned therein is unique.

3. The container of claim 2, wherein the radio frequency readable and writable identification device includes corresponding data associated with the unique container identifier to indicate the association of the container's origin and historical ownership data.

4. The container of claim 3, wherein the radio frequency readable and writable identification device includes a homogeneous recyclable category identification data element.

5. The container of claim 3, wherein the radio frequency readable and writable identification device includes a heterogeneous waste identification data element.

6. The container of claim 4, wherein the homogeneous recyclable category identification data element is configured to control a destination and a process path from processing to the end of the recycling cycle.

7. The container of claim 5, wherein the heterogeneous waste identification data element is configured to control a destination and a process path from processing to the end of the waste treatment cycle.

8. A flexible recyclable waste container, comprising: An embedded read / write element includes coded information configured to guide the flexible recyclable waste container from a waste treatment inlet to a controlled path, utilizing electronic and mechanical hardware that alters and controls the travel route of the flexible recyclable waste container to the appropriate location associated with homogeneous and heterogeneous waste treatment.

9. The flexible recyclable waste container of claim 8, wherein the embedded read / write element includes at least one data element configured to electronically define and transmit homogeneous waste identification data to a receiving hardware.

10. The flexible recyclable waste container of claim 8, wherein the embedded read / write element includes at least one data element configured to electronically define and transmit container identification data to a receiving hardware.

11. The flexible recyclable waste container of claim 9, wherein the homogeneous waste identification data is configured to determine a physical route for the flexible recyclable waste container using electronic and mechanical hardware control mechanisms.

12. The flexible recyclable waste container of claim 10, wherein the flexible recyclable waste container identification data corresponds to a machine-readable optical tag located on a first initial container to identify the source or ownership.

13. A transparent recyclable waste container, comprising: A read / write element; as well as A machine-readable optical tag is configured to allow visual external inspection of homogeneous or heterogeneous waste.

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