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FundFood
Inspiration
In 2019, Singapore generated around 744 million kg of food waste. The bulk of the food waste comes from food kept on supermarket/home shelves that have expired and also insufficient inventory planning. This food end up thrown into the garbage and landfills, which we find is quite a waste. While unwanted food can be gifted/sold to others who are in need at a much lower price, "expired food" can actually be recycled/converted to compost by relevant organizations who are willing to put in the money and effort to do so.
Hence we are inspired to build a platform that bridges this lack of communication channels and information asymmetry with a simple marketplace app that helps facilitate these transactions. On top of that, since the Singaporean government is actively seeking out solutions for this problem, we aim to create a meter to log the amount of food waste reduced through our platform with the hope that the Singaporean government can provide us with monetary support which will then be donated to help underprivileged children!
What it does
FundFood is a simple marketplace app that allows users to transact their unwanted/expired food. Users can sell their unwanted food at a lower price or even for free! We aim to reduce both food wastage in Singapore and food shortage in underprivileged countries.
To start, users can input their unwanted food into a form, which will then be logged onto the marketplace for everybody to see. Users can scroll to the marketplace to see whether they see another unused food in which they are interested in (to eat or to recycle) and can contact the user directly to manage the transaction.
On top of that, we will have a logging system to log the amount of food waste saved. Profits from the government's funding and the webpage service will be donated to underprivileged families with food shortages.
How we built it
We start off with a simple form for users to submit their unused food for sale (including the expiry date) which will be then displayed on the marketplace.
Users can then buy and sell unused food in the marketplace.
Challenges we ran into
Since we are fairly new to JavaScript, it took us quite some time to figure out the implementation in terms of syntax. Other than that, we faced difficulties in making the website dynamic as JavaScript can't have code in one file and modify another.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Having a decent interface for our website. A working shopping cart and a good representation of the food recycling website. Our solution is able to tackle food wastage in Singapore as well as food shortages in underprivileged countries.
What we learned
Besides learning more about the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework and how to use it, we actually learned a lot more about the food waste scene in Singapore and how astonishingly large the amount of food wastage is here. Other than that, we also learned about the government initiatives regarding food wastage and how we can contribute our technical skills to lend a helping hand in tackling this problem.
What's next for FundFood
Besides a marketplace for individuals to "trade" their unused food, we hope to be able to include a B2B (business to business)/B2C (business to consumer) model into our product so that both individuals and organizations can benefit from this. One idea is an event system hosted on our platform for food banks to raise food from consumers
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