Cai Guiqing (FOE), Chen Keying (FOE), Peng Fei (FOE), Sathappan Ashwin Chockalingam (FOE)
Academic Advisor: Ms. Wong Kah Wei
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of food deliveries spiked in the past year both globally and locally, resulting in an increase in food delivery trips and hence, an increase in carbon emissions and plastic wastes. Focusing on Ridge View Residential College, our project objective is apply the concept of food order coordination to reduce the carbon emission and plastic waste. The purpose is to reduce the number of separate food deliveries.
We created a Telegram channel and used the polling function to collect the individual orders from subscribers and combining them into one mass order. This resulted in the reduction of the number of deliveries and plastic bags and straws used. On average, we managed to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions by 1400g (including plastic bags) per mass delivery. Statistical results proved our project is effective in reducing carbon emission.