Patent ID: 8234224

Claim:
A system for brokering the purchase and sale of glass cullet, comprising: a database of available cullet; a logistics module for determining a least cost shipping route from a seller to a buyer, wherein determining the least cost shipping route includes solving at least one of the traveling salesman problem, the vehicle routing problem and the shortest path problem; and a broker computing device for: (i) receiving from a buyer computing device a query pertaining to at least one of a quantity and price of cullet for sale within a specified distance of a buyer specified address, (ii) querying the database of available cullet, (iii) transmitting, directly or indirectly, to the buyer computing device cullet information satisfying the query from the buyer computing device, (iv) receiving a payment for the purchase of the seller provided cullet and (v) communicating a location of the seller provided cullet to the logistics module for the determining.