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,
Claims20
A bag roll for materials management or material recovery, comprising:
- a plurality of bags,
- wherein the bags are formed from a flattened plastic film in continuous sequence and wound to form the bag roll,
- wherein each bag in the bag roll has at least one instance of an identifying code that is unique, and
- wherein the at least one identifying code of an outermost bag in the bag roll is visible on the bag roll.
A bag for materials management or material recovery, wherein the bag:
- is formed from a flattened plastic film,
- includes at least one fold line for folding, and
- includes an identification code that is printed or otherwise affixed to the bag at a plurality of locations in proximity to the at least one fold line.
A method of making a bag roll including a plurality of bags for materials management or material recovery, the comprising the steps of:
- forming a continuous sequence of bags for the bag roll from a flattened plastic film;
- communicating with a computer-based tool to obtain a plurality of unique identifying codes, each unique identifying code being associated with a respective one of the bags in the continuous sequence of bags;
- printing or affixing at least one instance of each identifying code to its respective bag;
- forming the bag roll from the continuous sequence of bags;
- scanning the unique identifying code for an outermost hag in the sequence of bags for the bag roll;
- and
- communicating the unique identifying code for the outermost bag to the computer-based tool,
- whereby the computer-based tool is operative to associate each of the plurality of unique identifying codes for the bag roll with the identifying code for the outermost bag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.