Patent ID: 8280410

Claim:
A method for collecting information relating to a recycling service providers' desirability, proximity and utility, and assembling directional, pricing and service data relating to the consumer, where the method comprises the acts of: a. electronically receiving preselected information about providers of predetermined recycling services and indexing said preselected information in a private information database; b. capturing global positioning system or geographic locator (“GPS”) information about a consumer via the consumer's computerized mobile interface device; c. capturing GPS information about nearby providers of predetermined recycling services via the consumer's computerized mobile interface device; d. electronically transmitting the preselected information about the nearby providers of predetermined recycling services received in ( 1 )(a) from the private information database to the consumer's computerized mobile interface device; e. electronically assembling a dynamic data record by combining the preselected information received in ( 1 )(d) with the GPS information about the consumer captured in ( 1 )(b) and the providers of predetermined recycling services captured in ( 1 )(c); f. storing the dynamic data record on the consumer's computerized mobile interface device; g. periodically updating the dynamic data record with updated and/or additional preselected information and GPS information about the consumer and the providers of predetermined recycling services; and h. analyzing the dynamic data record stored in the consumer's computerized mobile interface device to determine whether the consumer meets predetermined criterion to receive directional, pricing and service information relating to specific providers of predetermined recycling services.