Mobile Waste Segregation System with Asset Tagging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Public spaces with high foot traffic face challenges in efficiently segregating and tracking waste due to mixed waste collection, leading to increased transportation distances, air pollution, and inaccurate waste data, which hampers effective waste management and compliance with environmental regulations.
Innovation Solution
A mobile waste segregation system with an enclosure unit for human operators to segregate waste into streams, equipped with asset tag readers and tagging devices for on-site data tracking, reducing transportation needs and enhancing data accuracy, while integrating waste processing and storage facilities to manage hazardous waste safely and efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If waste is collected centrally from multiple sites, then waste processing can be consolidated, but transportation distances increase and carbon footprint increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of collecting waste from multiple sites to a central processing location, the invention inverts the approach by bringing the processing facility to the waste source. The mobile waste segregation system is transported to different waste-producing sites, enabling on-site segregation and eliminating the need for long-distance waste transportation.
Solution Approach 2:
The waste processing system is made mobile and adaptable rather than fixed. The enclosure unit can be transported between different sites, allowing the processing capability to dynamically relocate to where waste is generated, thus reducing transportation distances while maintaining processing efficiency.
2Productivity
If waste is collected centrally, then mixed waste can be processed, but accurate waste data for different sites cannot be obtained
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments waste data collection by site rather than aggregating all waste together. By performing segregation and data collection at each individual site, the system maintains distinct waste data for each location, enabling accurate tracking and analysis of waste generation patterns at each site while still providing comprehensive processing capability.
3Quantity of substance
If heavy waste machinery is used for centralized processing, then large amounts of waste can be handled, but energy requirements and carbon footprint increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the essential waste segregation and processing functions from heavy centralized machinery and implements them in a mobile, energy-efficient enclosure unit. By taking out only the necessary processing capabilities and locating them at the waste source, the system handles waste effectively while minimizing energy consumption and eliminating the need for heavy machinery transportation.
4Length of moving object
If on-site waste segregation is implemented, then transportation distance is reduced, but mobile processing facilities are required
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile enclosure unit is designed as a universal, multi-functional facility that can perform waste reception, segregation, data collection, and packaging at any waste-producing site. This universal design reduces the need for site-specific infrastructure and simplifies the overall system while enabling on-site processing that reduces transportation distance.
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided a mobile waste segregation system transportable between different sites. The mobile waste segregation system comprises: an enclosure unit (10) configured for housing a human operator (12), the enclosure unit (10) including a waste segregation facility (14) for receiving at least one waste container and segregating the waste from the or each waste container into different streams of product or commodity, the enclosure unit (10) further including a packing facility operable to pack each stream of product or commodity; an asset tag reader operable to read an asset tag of the or each waste container; and an asset tagging device operable to add an asset tag to each packed stream of product or commodity and/or update an existing asset tag of each packed stream of product or commodity.