An Information Management System Concept for Food Recycling

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.