EcoEats

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  User Login

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  Manager Login

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  Map View

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  List View

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  Manager Home Page

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  Add Item Page

Inspiration

Approximately 35% of feed generated in the United States is wasted, equating to 119 billion pounds annually. This food waste negatively exacerbates the climate change crisis with significant greenhouse gas emissions. In further detail, the carbon dioxide emissions from food waste amount to 170+ metric tons in the US annually. If the human population in the US were to recover half of the food being wasted, we could feed every hungry person in the United States three meals a day.

What it does

Our website provides connections between restaurants/food markets and consumers to reduce food waste and, therefore, greenhouse gas emissions. Local businesses can easily upload food items slated for disposal by providing information like quantity and price, encouraging waste reduction and sustainability by offering discounted food. Users can find these items based on location and reserve desired items directly through the website.

How we built it

We built this website using FlutterFlow for the front-end development and Firebase for the back-end development. FlutterFlow allowed us to create this website using their integrated Google Maps API for map viewing and the user interface. Firebase acted as the database to store information such as the user login, the user's reserved items, and the available food items in the list.

Challenges we ran into

Given the time restraints, we were unable to implement additional features that we had planned, such as a time constraint for the user to pick up the item before it is placed back in the food listing and a sustainability tracker to track how much the user has saved in terms of price, carbon emissions, and amount of food saved from being wasted.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of the real-time quantity update for reserving items when a user reserves a specific item. This feature took many attempts to implement, but after properly bridging the relationship in the database to the user interface, we applied this function without any more errors.

What we learned

We expanded our knowledge of the practical features of this website through Firebase and FlutterFlow. By utilizing Firebase's database in FlutterFlow's front-end user interface, we learned and accomplished real-time updates to deliver an interactable and smooth user experience.

What's next for EcoEats

We plan to implement a global counter to track the total amount of food preserved and prevented from contributing to food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. This global counter will allow us to measure our impact and be a powerful tool for raising user awareness. By seeing the tangible effects of their choices, users can better understand and appreciate their critical role in mitigating food waste and combating climate change.

Built With

• dart
• firebase
• flutterflow