Systems, methods, and devices are provided for tracking and managing waste or recyclable materials, which may include one or more devices enabled to capture and record information about waste material at a point in a distribution chain, and information technology systems for collecting, processing, and analyzing information about a large number and variety of streams of waste material. A forklift system may include a forklift, an RFID reader with an antenna positioned on or in proximity to the forklift, wherein the antenna is positioned to read RFID information from an RFID tag positioned on an item handled by the forklift. The system may also include a device for measuring a parameter indicative of the weight of the item handled by the forklift, and a processing facility with a server for associating the information read by the RFID reader and the parameter indicative of the weight of the item.

A lawn refuse bag insert includes a rear wall disposed at a rear end of the lawn refuse bag insert; a first side wall hingedly coupled to the rear wall at a first side of the lawn refuse bag insert; and a second side wall hingedly coupled to the rear wall at a second side of the lawn refuse bag insert opposite the first side wherein a top edge of the lawn refuse bag insert is disposed at a top end of the lawn refuse bag insert, and wherein the top edge is substantially U-shaped.