{"57483":{"#nid":"57483","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Waste Tracking:  The 9th Annual Year in Ideas","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cem\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/em\u003E, December 17, 2009\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe current system of curbside recycling hasn\u0027t kept pace with today\u0027s stream of high-tech garbage, which increasingly includes hardware that could be salvaged (like cellphone parts) and products that contain toxic materials that could be more safely disposed of (like some fluorescent light bulbs). But now, a prototype technology called Smart Trash aims to better manage all forms of waste that carry product ID tags. \u0022The whole information system falls off when things are disposed,\u0022 says Valerie Thomas, a professor of industrial engineering and public policy at Georgia Tech\u003Cstrong\u003E. \u003C\/strong\u003EShe is developing the Smart Trash system to fix that.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESee \u0022Waste Tracking\u0022 at: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/projects\/magazine\/ideas\/2009\/#technology-15\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/projects\/magazine\/ideas\/2009\/#technology-15\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-12-17 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}