Patent ID: 8862495

Claim:
A method for recycling a product comprising: recording, by a RFID reader of a collection point comprising at least one container that accepts material being deposited for recycling, an EPC code stored by a RFID tag individually marking the product to identify the product to be recycled and identify a deposit value associated with recycling of the product; transmitting information to a mobile device possessed by a user to be recorded by the mobile device and indicate that the product to be recycled has been brought to the collection point, wherein the mobile device comprises an identification module for uniquely identifying said mobile device, a user of the mobile device, or both said mobile device and said user in a wide area communication network, the mobile device, the user or both the mobile device and the user identified by the identification module being affiliated with a financial account, wherein said transmitting information to the mobile device comprises transmitting one or more of an identity of the product, a deposit value to be credited and a recycling fee to be charged to be included in a message transmitted by the mobile device over the wide area communication network for requesting an amount corresponding to the deposit value caused by the recycling of said product to be credited to the financial account or a recycling fee caused by the recycling of said product to be debited from the financial account, said information transmitted to the mobile device further comprising a request that the user of the mobile device input a response to the mobile device indicating whether displayed information displayed to the user by the mobile device associated with recycling of the product is accurate; receiving a positive or negative confirmation signal transmitted from the mobile terminal in response to the user inputting the response to the mobile terminal, the positive confirmation signal indicating that the displayed information associated with recycling the product is accurate, and the negative confirmation signal indicating that the displayed information associated with recycling the product is not accurate; in response to receiving the positive confirmation signal indicating that the displayed information associated with the product is accurate, opening the container during recycling of the product to receive the product; and not opening the container to receive the product if the information associated with the product is not confirmed to be accurate by the user.