MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641048423 A) filed by Aleena George, Idukki, Kerala, on April 16, for 'decentralized smart textile and plastic waste collection and circular recycling system.'
Inventor(s) include Aleena George.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This invention describes a decentralized waste management and circular economy system for collection, authentication, weighing, incentivization, and panchayat-level recycling of post-consumer textile and plastic waste. The system comprises distributed smart collection machines including a Cloth-Hub for used textile articles and a Plastic-Hub for segregated plastic materials. Each machine enables user authentication through mobile number and one-time-password verification, permits direct loose-material deposit, verifies material class and purity through sensing mechanisms, detects contaminants, determines accepted weight, and issues immediate digital compensation through a UPI-based payment interface. Transaction and material data are digitally recorded for monitoring and collection coordination. Accepted waste from ward-level machines is transported to a centralized panchayat recycling unit where textile waste is upcycled into utility products and plastic waste is converted into granules or molded articles. The system promotes source-level segregation, transparent citizen incentivization, local recycling, women-led livelihood generation, and reduction of landfill burden."
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