Digital Projects to reduce waste

Project 1 : Food Waste Movement
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Too Good To Go: let's not waste any more food and make some money together !

Beneficiaries:
  • owners of shops, restaurants, pubs,... who will sell something that would have ended up in the trash.
  • users of the app who will buy food at a third the retail price.

Users:

Need:
This app creates and answers a new need: getting rid of a surplus of food while gaining money. It reduces food waste, allows users of this app to gain money when it comes to sellers and to save money when it comes to ordinary users.

Description:
It is an app where a restaurant will sell a basket of goods at third the price (if it were worth 15 euros, it would be sold at 5 euros).
Therefore the consumer pays less and the owner of the shop earns 5 euros instead of throwing the basket in the trash.

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Project 2 : The largest recycling database to fight waste !
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RecycleNation: helped more than 10 million people recycle different items in 15 years !

Beneficiaries:
  • Businesses
  • Locals
  • Non-Profit Organizations
  • Federal Government entities

Users:

Need:
This app answers a specific need : knowing where any moral or physical person can recycle different items. For locals, It answers their own responsability to the planet. For businesses, It helps them adapt to new regulations when it comes to waste.

Description:
RecycleNation is a website and an app which has the world's largest recycling databases with 100 000 data elements for 50 different elements. Through its interactive widget and its API tools.
RecycleNation's API tools helps partner businesses customize their websites to add a tailored recycling search. It enhances their sustanbil

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Other info : This company also recycles its API's which is another way to fight waste !

Project 3: Dakota's Waste Management Software
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Dakota's Waste Management Software

Beneficiaries: Small and medium-sized entreprises.
for example: construction services companies

Users: managers and supervisors

Need:
This software answers the need of managing complex logistics and recordkeeping associated with waste.

Description: It is used to schedule waste transportation and storage, plan its disposal and implement strategies to reuse materials and recycle them. It helps employees be more efficient and be safer. The software includes reporting that can be used to show its CRS goals and regulatory compliance.

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Project 4: SmartWaste API helps Recycling Lives automate their workflow
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Recycling Lives enhances its capacities thanks to SmartWaste 's API.

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Users:

Need:
Recycling Lives needed an improvement of performance such as being able to support larger clients therefore SmartSite answers that need with its API solution.

Description: Recycling Lives is a company that offers waste management solutions as well as skip hire for construction companies. It originally operated a waste data aggregation system through an online portal however they could not support large clients that is where the API solution comes in. Indeed, in order to support larger clients they needed to transfer the online data into a cvs format manually. The API allows the automation of the process and also a simpler and more unified way of sharing information across clients' supply chain and websites

Technology used:
API

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