Commercial recycling system and method
AssigneeQuest Resource Management Group
InventorS. Ray Hatch
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Abstract
A system for recycling organics from a commercial facility includes a plurality of waste producing facilities each producing recyclable waste including organics and food packaging; one or more bins at each of the waste producing facilities, the bins being able to house the recyclable waste; a distribution center; a recycling facility able to separate the organics from the food packaging; one or more first vehicles for transporting the bins containing the recyclable waste from the plurality of waste producing facilities to the distribution center; and one or more second vehicles for transporting the recyclable waste from the distribution center to the recycling facility.
Claims18
A method of commercial recycling, comprising:
- collecting recyclable waste comprising organics and food packaging from a first waste producing facility, wherein collecting comprises aggregating recyclable waste in a first bin comprising a first compostable liner configured to isolate the recyclable waste from surfaces of the first bin;
- transporting the first bin comprising the collected recyclable waste from the first waste producing facility to a distribution center;
- aggregating the recyclable waste at the distribution center by:
- collecting recyclable waste comprising organics and food packaging from a second waste producing facility, wherein collecting comprises aggregating recyclable waste in a second bin comprising a second compostable liner configured to isolate the recyclable waste from surfaces of the second bin;
- transporting the second bin comprising the collected recyclable waste from the second waste producing facility to the distribution center;
- transporting the first and second bins comprising aggregated recyclable waste from the distribution center to a recycling facility;
- delivering one or more empty first and second bins from the distribution center to the first waste producing facility;
- emptying and cleaning the first and second bins at the recycling facility;
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- transporting empty first and second bins from the recycling facility to the distribution center.
A system for recycling organics from a commercial facility, comprising:
- a plurality of waste producing facilities, wherein the waste producing facilities each produce recyclable waste comprising organics and food packaging;
- one or more bins at each of the waste producing facilities, the bins configured to house the recyclable waste;
- a distribution center;
- a recycling facility configured to separate the organics from the food packaging;
- one or more first vehicles for transporting the bins containing the recyclable waste from the plurality of waste producing facilities to the distribution center;
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- one or more second vehicles for transporting the bins containing the recyclable waste from the distribution center to the recycling facility;
- wherein the bins comprise compostable liners configured to isolate the recyclable waste from surfaces of the bins;
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- wherein the distribution center is configured to aggregate the bins containing the recyclable waste such that a number of bins on the first vehicles is less than a number of bins on the second vehicles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.