Bag Opening as the Binding Constraint Across Eleven Privately Operated Sites
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement builds a discrete-event model of the over-the-counter container-refund transaction from 14,208 timed handovers at eleven privately operated depots, decomposing service time into presentation, opening, counting and settlement stages. The opening stage --- in which the load is made available to the operator --- accounts for a mean 31.4% of handover duration and 54.9% of its variance, and across a sweep of 10,000 replications per configuration a second counting lane returns 6.0% more throughput against 23.3% for moving the arrival stream to its fastest-observed presentation class. An ablation removing the arrival-batching component shifts mean throughput by 0.5% (n.s.) and is retained for completeness.
| Authors | Fenna Okoro, Anouk Mensah, Solveig Adeyemi |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Funding | Indicator Stewardship Seed Fund: Standing a Second Gauge Beside a Suburb's Volunteer Rain Reading Before Its Reader Retires ($386,921) |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.nkxa2l |
| Pages | 6 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_nkxa2l,
author = {Fenna Okoro and Anouk Mensah and Solveig Adeyemi},
title = {Towards a Discrete-Event Model of Container-Refund Depot Throughput: Bag Opening as the Binding Constraint Across Eleven Privately Operated Sites},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.nkxa2l},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-discrete-event-simulation-nkxa2l/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}