Information management apparatus dealing with waste and waste recycle planning supporting apparatus
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsIchiro Embutsu, Kenji Baba, Masayoshi Kubota, Harumi Matsuzaki
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Abstract
An information management apparatus dealing with waste in a waste recycling system comprises an information management device for managing information on waste of each depository, and a device of determining the waste collection method based on the information and the process volume of a recycling processor. The apparatus determines the waste collection method so that recycling products can be delivered stably.
Claims14
An object, which will become waste and is suitable for recycling, comprising:
- a recycling bar code label provided on a surface of said object, said recycling bar code label for use in recycling of said object.
A recycling-promoting object comprising:
- a recycling optically readable bar code label provided on a surface of said object, said label including information for recycling of said object.
A recycling-promoting object management method including the steps of:
- attaching a recycling bar-code label on a surface of an object when the object is produced, said bar-code label including information necessary for recycling;
- storing information pertaining to said recycling bar-code label;
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- reading said recycling bar-code label on the object when the object is considered as potentially recyclable waste;
- processing the object based upon the read said recycling bar-code label and the stored information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.