An Information Management System Concept for Food Recycling

Abstract

An information management system concept with a web interface is proposed for integrating food recycling chain managements. The recycling problem is much discussed in various markets such as food, containers and packaging products, home appliances, construction materials, and automobiles. Although the word "recycling" is used over the different recycling field, the characteristic and the legislation of the recycling object are different in each field. It is necessary to understand the feature of requirements for information management systems to carry out an efficient, available recycling in each recycling field. In this paper, the requirements in the above recycling fields are compared and characteristic requirements especially for food recycling are extracted. And an information management system concept corresponding to these demands is proposed. This system has an integrative management interface which is designed to be opened to retail shops or recycling manufactures through a web interface. Recycling information is stored in a database of the system directly through the recycling works and is used to get control over daily works, quality management of recycled feed materials, or to make reports to corresponding recycling law. Thus efficient and inexpensive information management for the recycled items can be realized.

Information Storage and Retrieval Schemes for Recycling Products

“…Therefore retrieval time tends to be long. The implementation using multidimensional arrays can be used to overcome problem (2) Using these three kinds of auxiliary tables, the address of an array element can be computed as follows.…”

“…In recycle management system (RMS) to support these 3R especially in reuse step, a powerful and efficient information management system is strongly desired. There have been many research efforts concerning high level organization strategies of RMS or information system supporting RMS [1] [2]. On the contrary, little research have been addressed on lower level organization of the information management systems concentrating on the internal data storage architecture suitable for handling recycling objects.…”

“…While high level organization strategy such as described in [1] [2] should be heavily dependent on the kind of recycling objects to be managed, improving lower level storage organization or internal data structuring strategy for recycling objects can afford handling efficiency and retrieval efficiency rather independently of the kind of recycling object.…”