Food Waste from refrigerators
Problem Statement
WHO?
People using refrigerators
Farmers and their families
Vegetable vendors and their family
Bachelors and spinsters
The food that goes bad in your fridge amounts to trillions of gallons of waste.
Families
Joint families
Working couples
Where maid comes
Where maid does not come
WHY?
walk in grocery with best intentions and filling up the cart with broccoli, bottle gourd and other vegetables.
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Lack of literacy
Order junk food.
Purchase of more stuff
Laziness
Unhealthy lifestyle
perishables are going bad at the back of fridge.
Forgetful about the remaining stuff
Waste of food and money
Dumping up in the dustbin
they will wind up in the trash.
Workload
Crave for outside food/junk food
efforts flopped again.
squandered the natural resources
Lack of management
environmental degradation.
Tendency of throwing things if not useful.
unhealthy lifestyle.
Knowing about the natural resources but still not taking steps from their bit to stop it.
WHERE?
households
hostels/pg
restaurant/dhaba
More attracted to packaging
canteens
weddings
POPs
hotels
hospitals
Online food delivery system
Offers/discounts
PRELIMINARY IDEA
waste generated at home. (biodegradable)
collection of waste
form into composte
manure
new plant
reward driven for manure contibution
how get people aware of their raw food getting rotten?
Feel pity about it but still end up throwing it
Tendency
Casualness
USER
Easy to go lifestyle
fridge
Easy availability
fridge brand/ manufacturer
people using fridge
joint families
Dont know how to use the fridge properly.
bachelors/ spinsters
working couples
Job has kept us busy and which in turn and has made us less
farmer
farmers family
vegetable vendor
vegetable vendors family
sabzi mandi
transport vehicle
driver
biodegradable community
collector of waste
nursery
buyer from nursery
maid
maids family
garbage
garbage collector
Food is thrown which makes us buy more frequently
Less sustainable
Current status
Food is thrown
Given to animals
Sometimes given to needy people
Given to maid
In case of going out for a tour or trip, we give everything to the neighbour
she feeds her family
Cows/dogs/pets
21 trillion of waste-That's the number we are talking about
Even they do not tend to take food which we get from home .They tend to take things which we buy in front of them
1/3rd of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally
One quarter of all wasted food could feed the 795 million people suffering from hunger
Food is wasted from agriculture production to household consumption
Food waste generates 3.3 billions of CO2 accelerates global climate change
Food cooked is usually so good so the students end up eating from outside and the food cooked gets thrown.
20% of the food wastage in India is due to this
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FACTS AND FIGURES
using eggs and bananas as organic fertilizer for tomato plants.
about 25% of the food purchased is thrown away.
Food thrown is not in separate bins which makes the animals eat plastic, pins, pieces of glasses and other things.
UN sutainable Development: Goal 2
water of bolied eggs generates calcium which is good for plant growth.
Onion peels soaked in water for one day also acts as a fertilizer for any plant.
Zero Hunger
The majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 per cent of the population is undernourished.
Asia is the continent with the hungriest people – two thirds of the total. The percentage in southern Asia has fallen in recent years but in western Asia it has increased slightly.
Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45 per cent) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year.
One in four of the world’s children suffer stunted growth. In developing countries, the proportion can rise to one in three.
Goals:
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025
By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production
Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets.
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives.