Materials management bag and system and method for tracking
AssigneeWasteZero, Inc.
InventorsKristen Brown, Mark Dancy, Steve Lisauskas
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Abstract
A computer-managed database of interconnected, unique codes attached on trash, recycling and other material management or recovery bags enables program managers to track and measure the materials management behavior including but not limited to weight, composition, compliance, and fraud; and to provide feedback including education, penalties or incentives directly to affected persons in order to cost effectively meet federal, state, local or corporate goals.
Claims14
A method of making a bag roll by a bag forming machine in communication with a computer-based database tool, the bag roll including a plurality of bags, the bag forming machine carrying out the steps of:
- forming a continuous sequence of bags for inclusion in the bag roll;
- communicating with the computer-based database tool to obtain a plurality of unique identifying codes, each unique identifying code obtained to be associated with a respective one of the bags in the continuous sequence of bags;
- printing, affixing, or embedding at least one instance of each identifying code to its respective bag in the continuous sequence of bags;
- forming the bag roll from the bags in the continuous sequence of bags having the unique identifying codes;
- scanning the at least one instance of the unique identifying code for an outermost bag in the bag roll;
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- communicating with the computer-based database tool to provide the unique identifying code for the outermost bag to the computer-based database tool and correlate the unique identifying code for the outermost bag with the unique identifying codes for each bag in the continuous sequence of bags included in the bag roll.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.