Design and Development of Online Portal for Food Waste Management

Abstract

The drive for reduction of food waste at high level requires effective management techniques of disposal and to reduce the excess production of food at source. This project aims to connect the management of hostel authority and the students to convey the information by means of a portal. To begin with the existing system at the institution was analyzed, investigative study was conducted in RV institution with a total number of 1300 of residential students and 3000 day scholars, and it was found that the food wasted on a daily count was 186 kg. Online portal helps at greater extent to find the exact number of food required on a day. Redistribution of surplus food in the form of coupons to day scholars will benefit both the management and students. The coding is done using Laravel PHP Web Framework for creating web application, MySQL for managing database, and LAMP for web development. Website provides the whole information on food wasted and coupon that can serve hunger at minimum cost; thus it creates awareness in students. By the test conducted for a week, it was found that using online portal, food wasted can be reduced.