From Guest Blogger Emma Skalka: Victor Stanley Relay–Revolutionizing the Recycling Process
Most current waste and recycling collection systems follow a static model, where containers are picked up regardless of their content or fill level.
This has an impact on monetary, environmental, and community costs, with some containers overfilling before they are collected, while others sit empty, yet are picked up anyway.
Victor Stanley Relay modernizes this system by monitoring the fill levels and weight of all containers, so that they can be collected at the optimal time. This service saves on collection expenses and ensures resources are allocated efficiently, while reducing fuel costs, carbon footprints, and unsightly overflowing waste.
The Victor Stanley Relay method of efficient waste collection looks promising for the efficient collection of waste form industrial and commercial companies. No doubt that accounts for a considerable percentage of waste. However, it is doubtful that it would work for waste from residential areas.
In most cities, waste containers are put out at the curb on collection days. And, when we put out our containers, we expect them to be emptied! Probably efficiency would be improved if we put out our waste containers only when they actually need to be emptied, which is what I do. That way the collection trucks wouldn’t need to make as many stops and efficiency would be improved.