Recycling management system and method

A technique is provided for managing units of plastic material in a cycle involving multiple producers and multiple reclaimers, each given unit carrying a landmark having extractable landmark informational data associated with the given unit and providing information of one or more characteristics thereof. Techniques include, for each recovery party: tracking the amount and mass of plastic material recovered by the recovery party using flag information data associated with a unit of plastic material; one or more new plastic tokens are dispensed as a function of the amount of recycled plastic material, and the number of plastic tokens dispensed to the recycling party is tracked. For each producer: tracking the amount of unused plastic used by the producer using the signed information data associated with the units of plastic material; the number of plastic tokens assigned thereto is tracked and the number of plastic tokens assigned is reduced as a function of the amount of unused plastic material used. The tec