System and method for facilitating the recycling of materials

An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium, said computer readable medium tangibly embodying one or more programs of instructions executable to perform a method for controlling a database, the method comprising the steps of:

• receiving, on a database, an aggregate consumption data set corresponding to the purchasing habits of the community;
• receiving, on the database, for each individual user entity of the plurality of individual consumer entities, an individual waste material data set corresponding to the characteristics of the waste materials gathered from that individual user entity, and associating that waste material data set with its corresponding individual user entity;
• generating, on the database, a community waste material data set via aggregating the plurality of received waste material data sets;
• and
• comparing, on the database, according to one or more predefined criteria, the aggregate consumption data set and the community waste material data set, and from this comparison generating a community consumption-waste metric.

A computer system for improving waste recycling in a community having a plurality of individual consumer entities, the computer system comprising a database being configured to perform the steps of:

• receiving, on the database, an aggregate consumption data set corresponding to the purchasing habits of the community;
• receiving, on the database, for each individual user entity of the plurality of individual consumer entities, an individual waste material data set corresponding to the characteristics of the waste materials gathered from that individual user entity, and associating that waste material date set with its corresponding individual user entity;
• generating, on the database, a community waste material data set via aggregating the plurality of received waste material data sets;
• and
• comparing, on the database, according to one or more predefined criteria, the aggregate consumption data set and the community waste material data set, and from this comparison generating a community consumption-waste metric.