System and method for collecting and processing glass

A method for managing requests for unloading crushed glass collected by glass crushing and collection machines distributed throughout a territory, the method comprising the following operating steps:

• monitoring, by a control center, an availability of one or more different types of crushed glass at the collection machines, the collection machines in electronic communication with the control center, and each collection machine identifying to the control center one or more of said types of crushed glass stored respectively in one or more container cells of the collection machine;
• receiving, at the control center, a request from a production plant for a type of crushed glass from among the one or more types of crushed glass;
• processing, at the control center, an emptying request transmitted from a collection machine of the collection machines wherein one or more of the glass container cells has been filled, and updating paths provided to a fleet of transport vehicles to be followed by respective drivers of said transport vehicles for unloading glass material from the glass container cells, a transport vehicle being selected by the control center from among the fleet of transport vehicles to unload the glass material from the glass container cells of the collection machine based on one of the request from the production plant and a minimum travel criteria of the transport vehicle to the collection machine, each filled container cell being filled with crushed glass of a single type of crushed glass from among the one or more types of crushed glass;
• loading glass contents from each filled container cell of the collection machine to the transport vehicle, thereby emptying each filled container cell of the collection machine to the transport vehicle;
• updating, at the control center following the emptying of each filled container cell, a weight of each container cell emptied by the transport vehicle and a weight of glass contents loaded from the emptied container cells onto the transport vehicle;
• upon reaching, on the transport vehicle, a given weight for a glass type requested by the production plant, transmitting, to the transport vehicle, map information for delivery of the glass contents of the requested type by the transport vehicle to the production plant;
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• delivering the glass contents of the requested type by the transport vehicle to the production plant.