CA3022583A1 - Systeme automatique pour gestion interactive fiable et efficace de dechets produits par une personne ou par un groupe de personnes, procede associe - Google Patents

Abstract

An automatic computer system for characterizing, collecting and sorting waste material which waste is selectively placed in a distinctive container distinctively identified, equipped with identification means to identify its owner, equipped with sealing / closing means at the distinctive container opening and or suited to be sealed by a sealing device, placed in an identified garbage bin, positioned on a disposal place, configured for receiving several distinctive containers in order to identify the owner of the garbage bin; picked up alone, or with other distinctive containers, by a garbage collection system and brought to a transfer / sorting system; andwhen upon being collected from an identified garbage bin, the distinctive container (s) are analyzed by various detection means or sensor (s), designed to determine how many distinctive containers are sealed, or colored, and / or identified by identification means, and in order to determine the presence, and eventually the quantity, of loose garbage that is not in distinctive container (s); analysis of a distinctive container, upon its collection from an identified garbage bin, is used to make an evaluation regarding the quality of garbage within the garbage bin; feedback is eventually given to the owner of identified garbage bin (s) to promote good waste management habits, and / or to ensure that all waste placed inside a garbage bin is in the form of a distinctive and sealed containers equipped with identification means and / or that no loose garbage is present inside said garbage.

Description

AUTOMATIC SYSTEM FOR RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT INTERACTIVE
MANAGEMENT OF WASTE GENERATED BY AN INDIVIDUAL OR BY A GROUP
OF INDIVIDUALS, METHO D THEREOF
GENERAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates generally to waste handling and more particularly to a interactive waste sorting and management system allowing the optimization of the complete chain of production of recovered valuable from domestic or commercial waste material.
PRIOR ART
Currently, good waste management habits are difficult to enforce. This is especially true for apartment buildings, as it is difficult to make each resident responsible for the waste they produce. For example, someone living in a large apartment building can easily has of unsorted, unsealed waste, or even place garbage in recycling bins, without any repercussions.
Pest issues and recycling difficulties arise due to these poor waste clothes management. Also, waste plastic bags are a problem in waste sorting, as they are very light and fly around, and can easily clog up equipment.
W02006096101 patent application discloses a disposable waste container designed to receive a quantity of waste, which waste container is provided with means (2) readable based on radio frequencies. There are also shown a set of parts, an arrangement, a method and at system for sorting of such waste containers.
US2012010746 patent application discloses a method in a waste handling system, in which waste or recyclable material is transported in carrier bags, bags or sacks (1) to a disposai point, such as to a waste bin of a waste room (WR1, WR2, WR3), and from there onwards by a transport vehicle for further processing. An RFID identifier (3) is used in connection with the carrier bag, bag, sack (1) or corresponding used in waste transport, preferably a closing means (2) that is provided with an RFID identifier (3) is used in closing, or as verification of the closing of, the carrier bag, bag, sack (1) or corresponding, and in which method a sensor (Si, S2, S3) is arranged in connection with, or in the proximity of, a disposai point, such as a waste room (WR1, WR2, WR3), of the waste system, the information read from the RFID
identifier of which sensor is transmitted to a control unit (CS), which is fitted to control the waste transport system,

2 or a part of it, on the basis of the information given by the RFID identifier.
The invention also relates to a waste transport system.
US2012234924 patent application discloses a method in a waste handling system, in which method waste or recyclable material is transported in carrier bags, bags or sacks (1) from a disposai point for further processing A closing means (2), which is provided with an RFID
identifier (3), is used in closing, or as verification of the closing of the carrier bag, bag, gold sack corresponding (1) used in the waste transport. The invention also relates to a closing means (2), which included in RFID identifier (3).
W02011029991 patent application discloses a method for sorting wastes, in which method the waste or recyclable material intended for sorting is brought in carrier bags, bags or sacks (1) to the sorting apparatus, which understood a conveyor, from which the carrier bags, bags or sacks belonging to different waste allotments are separated from each other by guiding them into the containers according to the allotments or to further processing. An RFID
identifier (3) is used in connection with the carrier bag, bag, sack (1) or corresponding used in waste transport, preferably a closing means (2) that is provided with an RFID identifier (3) is used in closing, or as verification of closing, the carrier bag, bag, sack (1) or corresponding, and in which method the carrier bags, bags, sacks (1) or corresponding intended for sorting are moved on a conveyor, in connection with which, or in the proximity of which, at least one sensor (If, S2, S3, S4, S5) is arranged, on the basis of the information read from the RFID identifier (3) of which sensor at least one handling device (R1, R2, R3, R4, R5), such as a robot, or a part of it, is controlled such that at least one handling device, or a part of it, transfers the carrier bags, bags, sacks (1), gold corresponding, to be sorted from the conveyor into the different allotments on the basis of the information given by the RFID identifiers (3). The invention also relates to an apparatus.
US2014340197 patent application discloses a method of redeploying waste containers in a waste collection system with an active or passive signal means requires a user to aim an optical character recognition reader at a waste container comprising a unique optical waste container identify. The optical character recognition reader reads unique waste container optical identify. The unique waste container optical identifier is converted to a unique electronically formatted waste container identifier. A single radio frequency signal identifier is stored on a radio frequency emitting tag and associated with the unique electronically formatted waste container identifier. The radio frequency emitting tag is attached to the waste container.

3 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURE
Figure 1: is a schematic representation of an automatic system for reliable and efficient management of waste generated by dwelling residents.
Figure 2: describes a bag marked with an identification code for use in the automatic system described in Figure 1.
GENERAL DE FINITION OF THE INVENTION
See fallow deer 1 to 7 DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION
EXAMPLES
The following examples are given solely as a matter of exemplification of the invention and should flot be regarded as restrictive of the invention in its broadest scope and as previously defined in the preceding paragraph.
Example 1 Having a population of 89,170 in 2016, the Montreal district Ville-Marie, situated in the province of Quebec, Canada, is estimated to produce over 24,500 tons of un-diverted waste per year. Currently, good waste management habits are difficult to enforce This is especially true for apartment buildings, as it is difficult to make each resident responsible for the waste they produce. For example, someone living in a large apartment building can easily dispose of unsorted, unsealed waste, or even place garbage in recycling bins, without any repercussions. Pest issues and recycling difficulties arise due to these poor waste management clothes. Also, waste plastic bags are a problem in waste sorting, as they are very light and fly around, and can easily clog up equipment.

4 The waste management system of the invention can be incorporated in Ville-Marie, having and area of 16.5 km 'and 51,465 dwellings (in 2016) as described in the table below:
Number of dwellings Total - Occupied private 51,465 100.0 dwellings by type of dwelling Apartment with five or more 25,925 50.4 stories Apartment with four or less 23,090 44.9 stories Detached house 225 0.4 Semi-detached house 150 0.3 Townhouse 955 1.9 Apartment or bungalow in a 970 1.9 duplex Other adjoining detached 105 0.2 house Implementation phases:
Preliminary phase starting on day 1, in which at. each dwelling is assigned an identity code (barcode);
b. each dwelling is given a set of 40 colored plastic bags labeled with their identity coded:
= 10 yellow bags (for food waste), = 10 green bags (for paper), = 10 red bags (for plastic) and = 10 brown bags (for metal, glass and mixed waste);

5 vs. each dwelling is given an information booklet explaining how to use the colored bags and purchase new colored bags, as well as all the other rules regarding tea new waste management and collection system;
d. grocery stores and other stores which sell plastic bags are equipped with printing machines which can print labels on the colored plastic bags;
e. colored, labeled plastic bags used for sorting and disposing of waste will be purchasable at said stores using the identity codes of the dwellings;
f. all garbage is collected twice a week using regular garbage trucks equipped with cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) which can check what fraction of the bags collected are colored and labeled, and determine approximately how much waste is loose, while also being able to store pictures of non-conforming waste as proof;
g. waste for each building requiring waste collection is given a score based on the AI
analysis;
h. at the sorting center, colored and labeled waste bags are analyzed, having their density measured and contents determined;
j. according to the analysis at the sorting center, for each bag that is labeled and sorted, the owner will receive credits of twice the cost of purchasing a bag;
j. bags and waste which do flot conform to the new regulations are excluded from the colored bag waste sorting system and are sorted with standard mixed waste sorting means; and k. information on the effectiveness of the sorting, participation of the dwellings and AI scoring of each building is collected.
2. Feedback phase starting at day 30 + 1, in which at. credits for waste management participation and successful sorting are reduced to the cost of purchasing a bag;
b. residents are informed that fees will begin to be charged to landlords and residents of dwellings if their waste is flot in accordance to the new regulations;
vs. landlords of all dwellings are contacted and informed about their results of the preliminary phase;

6 d. landlords of dwellings are warned that, in the next phase, warnings and increasingly large fines will be given out to landlords when waste does not conform to the sorting and handling regulations;
e. landlords speak with the residents of their dwellings to enforce the new waste management rules;
f. landlords begin to regulate the waste disposai of the residents of their dwellings and start to implement measures to ensure the residents of their dwellings hideous by the waste management rules, such as cameras and RFID locks (as described below);
g. specialized waste containers containing an RFID lock are made available for purchase by landlords and residents of dwellings;
h. specialized doors for apartment garbage chutes containing an RFID lock are made available for purchase by landlords of apartment buildings;
i. the specialized waste containers and specialized garbage chute doors do not open to allow for the disposai of waste bags if it is not in close contact with an RFID
identifier designed to open the specific RFID lock; and j. the RFID identifiers and given out to residents which must use the specialized garbage chute doors and / or specialized waste containers.
3. Regulated phase starting at day 60 +1, in which at. warnings and increasingly large fees are given out to landlords based on their AI
scoring during waste pickup;
b. landlords further regulate the waste disposai of the residents of their dwellings and further implement measures to ensure the residents of their dwellings hideous by the waste management rules, such as cameras and RFID locks;
vs. warnings and increasingly large fees are given out to dwelling residents based on the analysis of their bags in the sorting facility; and d. dwelling residents become more cautious when sorting and disposing of their waste.

7 Results of the implementation Through the implementation of the waste management, collection and sorting system, good waste management habits will be enforced and these pest issues, recycling difficulties and bag problems will be minimized, as described below:
- as fees related to poor AI scoring increase, more measures will be implemented by landlords to ensure that:
o ail of the waste entering their waste bins and / or garbage chutes is placed in bags, and o garlic of said bags are colored, labeled and sealed;
- as more garbage is put into sealed bags, pest issues will decrease;
- since each colored bag is printed with a label and landlords will implement measures to ensure that each bag placed into their waste bins and / or garbage chutes must be in a colored bag, the dwelling residents will become responsible for their waste;
- as fees for improperly sorted and sealed colored bags increase (through the analysis of colored and labeled bags within the sorting facility), dwelling residents will become more cautious with their waste sorting and disposai habits;
- the improvement in waste sorting and disposai habits will ensure that oa higher quantity of paper can be recycled, oa higher quantity of food waste can be sent for composting and / or anaerobic digestion, oa higher quantity of plastic can be sent for recycling and / or pyrolysis fuel production through Sweet Gazoil's patented pyrolysis system, o products obtained from above operations will be of higher quality and operational costs associated with sorting will be decreased, and o less waste is sent to landfills and / or incinerators;
All fractions of residential waste will be capable of being picked up at once, reducing transportation costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
Since more and more waste will be contained in sealed plastic bags, the sorting system will be capable of recuperating the contents of the bags while also being able to ensure that the bags are sent with the other plastic material. There will be less loose bags flying around and the plastic

8 bags which have had their contents recuperated can be easily and efficiently transformed into fuels for example through Sweet Gazoil's patented pyrolysis system.
Example 2 Information system example according to Figure 1 Dwelling residents sort their waste into colored bags equipped with sealing means and barcodes identifying that said bags belong to said residents. The dwelling residents seal their bags and place their colored, identified and sealed bags into waste bins belonging to the dwelling landlords / owners. The dwelling landlords / owners can check, through the use of cameras, to ensure that ail the waste placed in their bins is in the form of colored, identified and sealed bags.
A garbage truck collects ail of the waste inside the waste bin. As the waste is being collected, optical sensors (cameras) take pictures of the waste being dumped into the truck. The pictures are sent to a computer which makes an analysis regarding the quality of the waste bags within the truck. Since the dwelling landlords / owners ensured that ail the waste placed in their bins is in the form of colored, identified and sealed bags, the waste bin is rated positively. The computer checks the database to see who should be credited. The computer then sends credits to the dwelling landlords / owners who's waste bins were rated positively.
The waste from the garbage truck is dumped inside a sorting facility. Tea sorting facility makes optical and physical analysis of the bags and sorts the bags, using the computer and according to a control system, into their corresponding fractions based on the analysis.
Information on the contents and state of the colored and labeled bags are sent to the computer.
Since the dwelling residents sorted and sealed their waste into their colored bags, the bags are rated positively. Tea computer checks the database to see who should be credited. The computer then sends credits to the dwelling residents who's waste bags were rated positively.
If the dwelling landlords / owners did not manage the contents of their waste bin and their waste bin was unsatisfactory (eg a large fraction of the bags inside the bin are not sealed or are not colored and labeled) they would receive warnings and increasingly large fines.
If the fines are

9 not paid in time, the computer would inform the garbage truck to not collect from the dwelling landlords / owners' bin.
If the dwelling residents did not sort their waste into the colored bags and / or seal the bags, they would receive warnings and increasingly large fines. If the fines are not paid in time, the computer would inform dwelling landlords / owners of said unpaid fines and inform the garbage truck to not collect from the dwelling landlords / owners' bin.
Colored and identifiable bags (hereinafter called CIBs) which can be traced back to a waste generator (the household which produced the waste) due to the presence of an identification means (such as a barcode) are analyzed within the sorting facility to determine the ClBs' origin, weight, density and color. The color indicates the type of material the CIB is supposed to contain (organics, plastics, metal, etc.), while the identification means contains information on the waste generator.
Inspections can be done on a large number CIBs to confirm their contents and collect data on their weights and densities, while also knowing what type of material the CIBs contain and where the CIBs originated from. The data from said inspected CIBs can be used to build a database containing information on the range of weights and densities for the different acceptable CIBs. This database can then be used during the automatic sorting of waste to determine whether or not a CIB is acceptable or not by comparing its weight and density to the range of weights and densities of the CIBs which have been inspected and deemed acceptable.
The range of acceptable weights and densities can be collected and associated with a certain region (hereinafter called a local database) from which the waste originated.
This local database can then be used to gain information on the waste habits from the population in said region and to adjust the range of acceptable weights and densities for that region.
The following is an example used to help understand the concept of local databases:
- 500 CIBs containing plastic material originating from City X have been inspected and deemed acceptable. Due to the waste habits of the population of City X, the plastic material is not very compact, and therefore the densities of CIBs containing plastic material are relatively low. The CIBs containing plastic material originating from City X collected in the future are now expected to have relatively low densities.

10 When a future CIB containing plastic material originating from City X is collected and its density is much higher, the CIB is either rejected from the sorting system reserved for acceptable ClBs and / or is inspected to confirm the CIB's happy;
- 500 CIBs containing plastic material originating from City Y have been inspected and deemed acceptable. Due to the waste habits of the population of City Y, the plastic material is very compact, and therefore the densities of CIBs containing plastic material are relatively high. The CIBs containing plastic material originating from City Y collected in the future are now expected to have relatively high densities.
When a future CIB containing plastic material originating from City Y is collected and its density is much lower, the CIB is either rejected from the sorting system reserved for acceptable CIBs and / or is inspected to confirm the CIB's happy; and - 500 CIBs containing plastic material originating from City Z have been inspected and deemed acceptable. Due to the waste habits of the population of City Z, the plastic material is either very compact or flot very compact, and therefore the densities of CIBs containing plastic material are either relatively high or relatively low, but not many CIBs containing plastic material have densities that fall in between. Tea CIBs containing plastic material originating from City Z collected in the future are now expected to have relatively high or relatively low densities but are flot expected to have densities which fall in between these high and low values. When a future CIB
containing plastic material originating from City Z is collected and its density is between the ranges of high- and low-density values, the CIB is either rejected from the sorting system reserved for acceptable CIBs and / or is inspected to confirm tea CIB's contents.
This concept can also be used to build databases associated to certain waste generators (hereinafter called personalized databases), which can be used to gain information on the waste habits of said certain waste generators and adjust the range of acceptable CIB
weights and densities. Based on the waste habits of certain waste generators, extra rewards or penalties can be allocated to said waste generators to promote good waste management habits.
The following are examples used to help understand the concept of personalized databases:
- 50 CIBs containing plastic material originating from Household A have been inspected and deemed acceptable. Due to the waste habits of the people residing in

11 Household A, the plastic material is flot very compact, and therefore the densities of CIBs containing plastic material are relatively low. The CIBs containing plastic material originating from Household A collected in the future are now expected to have relatively low densities. When a future CIB containing plastic material originating from Household A is collected and the density is much higher, the CIB is either rejected from the sorting system reserved for acceptable CIBs and / or is inspected to confirm the CIB's contents. Also, since having a more compact waste stream is useful to reduce the quantity of trips needed to carry a certain amount of waste, the residents of Household A can be told that they should compact their plastic materials before disposing of them and they can be informed of effective compacting methods. Incentives (such as rewards or penalties) can be used to promote the compacting of waste; and - 50 CIBs containing plastic material originating from Household B have been inspected and deemed acceptable. Due to the waste habits of the people residing in Household B, the plastic material is very compact, and therefore the densities of CIBs containing plastic material are relatively high. The CIBs containing plastic material originating from Household A collected in the future are now expected to have relatively high densities .; when a future CIB containing plastic material originating from Household A is collected and the density is much lower, the CIB is either rejected from the sorting system reserved for acceptable CIBs and / or is inspected to confirm the CIB's contents.
Using local and personalized databases, it is also possible to build algorithms used to determine if a C1B's contents are acceptable. These algorithms can also incorporate material detectors, such as metal detectors, to verify the contents of a CM.
ADVANTAGES OF THE AUTOMATIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF THE
INVENTION
The main advantages are the following:
1- The organics, fiber and plastics can be taken altogether in one truck without cross-contamination, thus the pickup for each waste is more frequent. For example, instead of

12 having one truck paper one week and organics another, the truck picks ail the items each week meaning more convenience for the generators.
2- With rapid feedback (positive or negative) to the generators and bin owners each week the amount of time for education is much reduced and the quality of the sorting at the source much improved.
3- The sorting can be greatly simplified once the quality is high. There are much less items to sort as the containers have man y similar items. Only the containers are sorted not the items. At the end the containers can be opened and recycled or have a second life for example as fuel.
4- There is no need for double or multiple stream recycling to obtain the quality needed to sell the recycled paper, plastic or other items at a better price.
5- The loose plastic films which are a big source of problems for sorters as it has little value and often jams machines are put in bags and can be treated with the other plastics.
6- With the positive feedback and penalties the real source of problems can be addressed and the collection costs reduced or attributed on the basis of quantity and quality. Not just on the basis of quantity or ownership of dwelling.
7- The recycling at multiple unit dwelling can be greatly increase as both the owner of the complex or building and the renters are responsible for the recycling. Thus, with feedback to both there is a much higher level of awareness from ail.
8- With more regular pickup of MSW (municipal solid waste) and sealed containers the problems from pests and vermin can be greatly reduced.
Although the present invention bas been described with the aid of specific embodiments, it should be understood that several variations and modifications may be grafted onto the embodiments and that the present invention encompasses such modifications, gold uses adaptations of the present invention that will become known or conventional within the field of activity to which the present invention pertains, and which may be applied to the essential elements mentioned above.

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Claims: 1. An automatic computer system for characterizing, collecting and sorting waste material where waste is selectively placed in a distinctive container, such as a colored bag, and where the distinctive container is:
- distinctively identified, for example colored differently, according to the type of waste the distinctive container it is intended to contain (plastic or organics or metals, gold etc ...);
- equipped with identification means, such as barcode (s), tags, RFIDs, etc. to identify the owner of a specific distinctive container;
- equipped with sealing / closing means at the distinctive container opening and or suited to be sealed by a sealing device;
- placed in an identified garbage bin, positioned on a disposal place, configured for receiving several distinctive containers with identification means such as barcode (s), tags, RFIDs, etc. in order to identify the owner of the garbage bin;
- picked up alone, or with other distinctive containers, by a garbage system collection and brought to a transfer / sorting system; and where:
- upon being collected from an identified garbage bin, the distinctive container (s) are analyzed by various detection means or sensor, such as an optical and / or RFID
sensor, designed to determine how many distinctive containers are sealed, or colored, and / or identified by identification means, and in order to determine the presence, and eventually the quantity, of loose garbage that is not in distinctive container (s);
- analysis of a distinctive container, upon its collection from an identified garbage bin, is used to make an evaluation regarding the quality of garbage within the garbage bin;
- the distinctive container (s) and / or loose garbage, being collected or not collected from an identified garbage bin, have optionnally their picture and / or specter and / or film taken as evidence if their evaluation is deemed unsatisfactory and corresponding information is stored in a data bank, operatively connected to the system, for feedback purposes; and - feedback is eventually given to the owner of identified garbage bin (s) to promote good waste management habits, and / or to ensure that all waste placed inside a garbage bin is in the form of a distinctive and sealed containers equipped with identification means and / or that no loose garbage is present inside said garbage.
where:
- upon being collected from an identified garbage bin, the global content of the bin is analyzed by detective means, such as an optical sensor, designed to determine:
- optionally, the amount of loose garbage that is not in a container, - how many containers are sealed, wearing personal identification means, and specifically identified by identification means, and - analysis, during and / or after their picking up and / or during transportation and / or at the transfer / sorting plant, of each of the identified container, from an identified garbage bin is used to make an evaluation regarding the quality of garbage within the bin and / or to make an evaluation regarding the quality of a specific distinctive container;
- the identification data of the owner of a hag is associated with the owner of a bin; and - optionally, the distinctive container (s) and / or loose garbage being collected from an identified garbage bin have their picture taken as evidence if their evaluation is deemed unsatisfactory and information is stored in a data bank operatively connected to the system for feedback purposes; and - feedback is given, by the system, to the owner of identified garbage bins in respects of requirements fixed for the conformity of the content of a bin, to promote good waste management habits, ensuring that all waste placed inside said garbage bins is in the form of colored and sealed bags equipped with identification means and that no loose garbage is present inside said garbage bins; and - optionally, feedback is given by the system to the owner of a specific distinctive bag, in respects of requirements fixed for the conformity of the content of a specific distinctive container / bag;
- optionally, feedback is given by the system to the owner of the garbage bin in respect of data associated with a specific owner of a specific container;
- data collected on the content of a bin, on the content of a distinctive contain bag, are stored in a data ban and associated with the required norms, and the processer of the computer will calculate if a situation of compliance or of non-compliance wit is present, and eventually an informatic report is send by the system to the owner of a container and / or to the owner of a garbage bin;
- optionally, penalty fees based on for example on quantity and quality such as weight or compacting ratio are charged, preferably directly by the system, to the owner of a distinctive container when not satisfying standards;
- optionally, reward, based for example on quantity and quality such as weight or compacting ratio are, preferably directly credited to the owner of a distinctive container when satisfying standards;
- optionally, the garbage bin is not assigned to a specific building, for example in the case of a municipal garbage deposit place, thus the bags are identified to a person but the garbage bin is mainly identified with location data related to the deposit place, and optionally, in this case, only identified containers will be accepted and garbage bin may thus be equipped with security means allowing access to the open garbage bin only after accepted identification by the system of the distinctive container owner; and - optionally a distinctive container owner may also be a specific dwelling. 2. An automatic computer system for characterizing, collecting and sorting waste material where waste is selectively placed in distinctive containers, such as colored bags, and where:
- the containers are distinctively identified, for example colored differently, according to the type of waste the container it is intended to contain (plastic or gold organics metals, gold etc ...);

- the containers / bags (are wearing a personal identification means such as barcode (s), tags, RFIDs, etc. to identify the owner of a container / bag;
- the containers / bags are equipped with sealing / closing means at the container / bag opening;
- the bags are placed in identified garbage bins equipped with identification means such as barcode (s), tags, RFIDs, etc. to identify the owner of the bins;
- the containers / bags are picked up, from the bin, by a garbage collection device and brought to a transfer and / or sorting plant; and where at least one of the following features is present:
- upon being collected from an identified garbage bin, the global content of the garbage bin is analyzed by detective means, such as an optical sensor, designed to determine:
- the amount of loose garbage that is not in a distinctive container, - how many containers / bags are sealed, wearing personal identification means, and specifically identified by identification means, and - analysis, during and / or after their picking up and / or during transportation and / or at the transfer /
sorting plant, of each of the identified container / bags, from an identified garbage bin is used to make an evaluation regarding the quality of garbage within the bin and / or to make an evaluation regarding the quality of a specific bag;
- the identification data of the owner of a bag is associated with the owner of a garbage bin; and - optionally, the container / bags and / or loose garbage being collected from an identified garbage bin have their picture taken as evidence if their evaluation is deemed unsatisfactory and information is stored in a data bank for feedback purposes; and - feedback is given, by the system, to the owner of identified garbage bins in respects of requirements fixed for the conformity of the content of a bin, to promote good waste management habits, ensuring that all waste placed inside said bins is in the form of colored and sealed bags equipped with identification means and that no loose garbage is present inside said bins; and - optionally feedback is given by the system to the owner of a specific bag, in respects of requirements fixed for the conformity of the content of a specific distinctive container;
-optionally feedback is given by the system to the owner of the bin in respect of data associated with a specific owner of a specific distinctive container;
- data collected on the content of a bin, on the content of a bag, are stored in a data ban and associated with the required norms, and the processer of the computer will calculate if a situation of compliance or of non-compliance wit is present, and eventually an informatic report is send by the system to the owner of a distinctive container and / or to the owner of a bin. 3. An automatic computer system for characterizing, collecting and sorting waste material where waste is selectively placed in distinctive containers, such as colored bags, and where:
- the containers are distinctively identified, for example colored differently, according to the type of waste the container it is intended to contain (plastic or gold organics metals, gold etc ...);
- the containers / bags (are wearing a personal identification means such as barcode (s), tags, RFIDs, etc. to identify the owner of a container / bag;
- the containers / bags are equipped with sealing / closing means at the container / bag opening;
- the bags are placed in identified garbage bins equipped with identification means such as barcode (s), tags, RFIDs, etc. to identify the owner of the bins;
- the containers / bags are picked up, from the bin, by a garbage collection device and brought to a transfer and / or sorting plant; and where:
- upon being collected from an identified garbage bin, the global content of the bin is analyzed by detective means, such as an optical sensor, designed to determine:
- the amount of loose garbage that is not in a container / bag, - how many containers / bags are sealed, wearing personal identification means, and specifically identified by identification means, and - analysis, during and / or after their picking up and / or during transportation and / or at the transfer /
sorting plant, of each of the identified container / bags, from an identified garbage bin is used to make an evaluation regarding the quality of garbage within the bin and / or to make an evaluation regarding the quality of a specific bag;
- the identification data of the owner of a bag is associated with the owner of a bin; and - optionally, the container / bags and / or loose garbage being collected from an identified garbage bin have their picture taken as evidence if their evaluation is deemed unsatisfactory and information is stored in a data bank for feedback purposes; and - feedback is given, by the system, to the owner of identified garbage bins in respects of requirements fixed for the conformity of the content of a bin, to promote good waste management habits, ensuring that all waste placed inside said bins is in the form of colored and sealed bags equipped with identification means and that no loose garbage is present inside said bins; and - optionally feedback is given by the system to the owner of a specific bag, in respects of requirements fixed for the conformity of the content of a specific container / bag;
-optionally feedback is given by the system to the owner of the bin in respect of data associated with a specific owner of a specific container / bag;
- data collected on the content of a bin, on the content of a bag, are stored in a data ban and associated with the required norms, and the processer of the computer will calculate if a situation of compliance or of non-compliance wit is present, and eventually a informatic report is send by the system to the owner of a bag and / or to the owner of a bin. 4. A system for characterizing, collecting and sorting waste, according to anyone of claims 1 to 3, where:
.cndot. the sorting facility is equipped with an optical and / or RFID sensor designed to identify the color and owner of a specific bag, as well as other physical sensors to determine a bag's weight, volume and density, odor, metal, radiation, etc .;
.cndot. the specific bags which are not colored and identified are rejected from the waste sorting system reserved for colored bags;
.cndot. a bag's color is used to determine a range of acceptable characterizing features such as densities, odor ... etc ...;
.cndot. the bags which have a density outside of the allowable range are rejected from the waste sorting system reserved for colored bags;
.cndot. loose garbage is rejected from the waste sorting system reserved for colored bags;
.cndot. the analysis of colored and identifiable bags upon sorting is used to make an evaluation regarding the quality of garbage within the bag;
.cndot. based on the evaluation of the bags, feedback is given to the owner of a specific colored and / or to the associated and identifiable bags to promote good waste management habits, ensuring that all waste placed inside the colored and identifiable bags and / or bins is properly sorted. 5. A system, according to anyone of claims 1 to 4, for characterizing, collecting and sorting waste, which: the content of an identified bags, to be sorted, have their picture taken as evidence if their evaluation is deemed unsatisfactory and information is stored for feedback purposes, and where optionally this picture is associated wit other data collected by sensors and associated with the same specific bac. 6. A system for characterizing, collecting and sorting waste, according to anyone of claims 1 to 5, where:

at. the collection system is equipped with an optical and / or RFID sensor designed to identify the color and owner of a bag, as well as other physical sensors to determine a bag's weight, volume and density;
b. the bags which are not colored and identified are rejected from the waste collecting system reserved for colored bags;
vs. a bag's color is used to determine a range of acceptable densities;
d. the bags which have a density outside of the allowable range are rejected from the waste collecting system reserved for colored bags;
e. loose garbage is rejected from the waste collecting system reserved for colored bags;
f. the analysis of colored and identifiable bags upon sorting is used to make year evaluation regarding the quality of garbage within the bag;
g. the bags which have an unsatisfactory evaluation are rejected from the waste collecting system reserved for colored bags; and h. feedback is given to the owner of colored and identifiable bags based on tea evaluation of the bags to promote good waste management habits, ensuring that all waste placed inside the colored and identifiable bags is properly sorted. 7. System for characterizing, collecting and sorting waste, according to claim 1 to 6, where the system sends to the collecting device instructions not to collect a specific garbage bin or bag due to important breach of conformity and / or due to repetitive breach of conformity or due to unsatisfactory historic of a specific bin and / or distinctive container and / or of a specific / identified disposal / collection place.