2021 SEP 21 (NewsRx) - By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily - According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventor Gagnon, Robert (Lantz, CA), filed on February 24, 2021, was made available online on September 2, 2021. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "In order to encourage recycling, it is becoming more and more commonplace that a cash deposit is imposed on beverage containers purchased by consumers. Typically, after a consumer consumes the beverage stored in the container, the consumer collects the empty recyclable container and returns the collected containers to a return centre, for example, at a supermarket or a designated redemption centre, for a return of the deposit. Typically, the recyclable containers are made in various sizes, for example, as small cans or large bottles, and are made of various materials, for example, glass, metal, or plastic. "Unfortunately, since commercially available container counting machines are large in size, complex, and expensive, the process of counting the containers at most return centres is performed manually, thus requiring a considerable amount of time for staff to spend for counting while customers are waiting. Furthermore, when manually counting larger numbers of containers there is an increased risk of counting errors.
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