18704187. Closed-Loop Recycling System (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Closed-Loop Recycling System
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventor(s)
Bruce Cummings of New York NY (US)
Eva Maria Ponce Cueto of Brookline MA (US)
Suzanne E. Greene of Zurich (CH)
Saikat Banerjee of Waltham MA (US)
Closed-Loop Recycling System
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18704187 titled 'Closed-Loop Recycling System
Original Abstract Submitted
A system comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the processor is provided. The medium stores instructions configured to cause the processor to perform operations including receiving, from a user, a search request comprising one or more keywords related to a desired item, determining that the user is a participant in a closed-loop recycling program based on a user setting, identifying, based on the determination and the keywords, one or more item results, at least one qualifying result of the one or more item results having a packaging meeting a predetermined level of recyclability, and providing to the user in a prioritized manner, the at least one qualifying result.
