Nicholas Tan Wei Han (FOE), Tan Hui Wen, Shervon (SDE), Tan Li Cher (FOE), Vankamamidi Sree Lekha (SDE)
Academic Advisor: Dr. Corinne Ong
Forgotten food in fridges has always been one of the main reasons for food wastage in Singapore, including RVRC. Increased awareness of food left in fridges can reduce food wastage. Hence, our approach aims to make food stored in RVRC’s fridges easily trackable while increasing student users’ awareness of when their food expires. We conducted and created i) a pre- and post- implementation survey to understand food wastage patterns; ii) a telegram bot with a food expiry reminder system; iii) boxes to compartmentalise the fridge for residents. We aim to determine the effectiveness of the implementations through i) user feedback and results weekly surveys over the course of one month; ii) data on wastage levels from the monthly fridge cleaning exercise. we believe that through a thorough analysis of the experiment, we will be able to conclude which implementation is more effective in reducing food wastage in RVRC’s fridges.