Article: Cascade Engineering Launches RFID System that Tracks Trash by Household.

LAS VEGAS, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Cascade Engineering Inc. today unveiled an automated system using "smart" waste containers, data readers and scales on trash trucks that will allow cities and towns nationwide to foster recycling and charge households by the weight of trash they put on the curb.

The EcoNology system developed by Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Cascade records the trash disposal habits of individual households through the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips embedded in plastic trash carts. Data sensors on trash trucks read the RFID chips as the carts are being lifted on forks outfitted with scales, and the weights of carts are recorded ...

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