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“Waste Food Management and Donation App”

Vanashree Mhatre1, Shweta Chavan2, Snehal Gamare3, Prof. Varsha Salunkhe4
[1,2,3] Student,(Computer Engineering), Atharva College of Engineeing, Mumbai
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Abstract— Food waste is something that affects us all.It restaurant. The NGO Manager then accept the request and
affects people everywhere like in our homes,at schools,at assigns it to one of the NGO employees for takeaway and
restaurants,the grocery store, in production and even in forwards the request to the restaurant. The remaining
transportation. This application use of mobile technology food at the hotel can be given to NGOs at the end of the
to reduce waste food and allow hotels to donate leftover day. The admin can detect the history of restaurants and
food to needy people. Using this app user can NGOs for the leftover foods. orphanages, old age house
register,login and aslo view, add,remove items from the owner can give a rating of food item which will help other
cart and then logout in a system. This app also stored real- persons to select the food item. Sentiment analysis using
time database.In this app donor can add the food details scrkit_learn library, NLP algorithm and python are used to
and volunteer of the NGO can see the food images donated store sentiment of each review given by the owner.[10]
by the different donors

Keywords— Food Wastage; Mobile App; Firebase;

Authentication; Storage; database

1. INTRODUCTION

The sharp increase in huge amount of wastage of food

makes the need for donation of food. In highly populated
country like India, food wastage is a big problem. Waste
food is major issues that food shortage, we can see than
many people throw foods in dustbin even the food eatable
condition. This issue is not only wastage food even
wastage of money also. It causes many environment
problems such as pollution , causing global warming and
climate change. Food wastage is not only a sign of
pollution or hunger, but also of many economic problems.
This product is android based application for NGO's it is a
platform for donating remaining food for needy people.
Fig 1: Block Diagram
This app developed a common combination by connecting
to a donor and a volunteer from the NGO where the donor 2.LITERATURE SURVEY
add all the food information which contain food type,
location where the food is available, cooking and expiry According to [2], food waste is a important issue around
date/time of food Selecting a Template. the world. It is predicted through a survey that more
than 58 percent of food that people generated for
1.1] Motivation consumption is wasted every day. Thus, more than 60
percent of people in the third world countries are dying
As per the knowledge the technology is going advances
in malnutrition without proper food for a living.
and growing day by day. Over main motto is to help needy
Therefore, the technologically developed countries are
people. The idea behind over project can be use by many
articulate more on this issue. Therefore, that limited
people who wish to donate things to needy organizations.
food can be wasted and can be distributed to the needy
Also, many organizations like to ask for various things
people. According to in the age of modern era, where we
required by them such as clothes, food grains, books,
are developed through artificial intelligence, people are
utensils, etc[ 7].
more depending on the smartphone. There are different
[1.2] Basic Concept applications, which are developed to control the more
wastage of food, and it give the opportunity to send that
In this mobile app, we have tried to reduce restaurant food extra food to the people who need it. There are many
wastage by giving waste food to NGOs. NGOs will add to a applications, which control food waste.
request, in case of any leftover food hotels have. This
request is sent to the restaurant manager of that specific

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‘Mobile phone Based Waste Food Supply Chain for 3. ANALYSIS OF EXISTING APPLICATION
Aurangabad Using GIS Location Based and Google Web
Services’, published in 2014, it combine the client- At present, the requirement of the system is done using
server GIS and mobile application to make a craving websites which are not accessible quicker and provide no
free city. The application for client side gives the option awareness about the service to the world[4]. There is no
to donate food to the people in demand. Donors enter actual interaction between the donor and NGOs since
the easy information such as quantity of food and what everything reveal by intermediates. Another reason
type of food it is with amount and their respective includes there is no active mobile application available in
contact number. NGOs or any social working place
organization can take up that food and deliver to hungry
people. When the registration will be finished it will be 4. PROPOSED SYSTEM
placed on the server side database from where the
4.1] Implementation
organizations can store the data of donors and the
optimal path of donor’s location to the nearest NGOs or Donor Side:
any establishment along with direction will be shown. Step 1: User can register using personal details.
So that hungry people can get food on time [3]. Step2: User can login in his personal account using id and
password.
A new online-based application that provide a platform
Step 3: Create a new food item with details of quantity,
for donating leftover food to all or any needy
location, address contact.
people/organizations [4]. It give details about the
Step 4: Add images to the food items.
motivation to return up with such an application,
Step 5: Add multiple food items to cart for booking.
thereby describing the prevailing donation system and
Step 6: After adding details about food user can logout the
the way the proposed product works for the
system.
improvement of society. The recent depression has
grow the amount of individuals living in conditions of
Volunteer side:
food poverty, especially in developed regions. At the
Step 1: User can register using personal details.
client side App give facility to donate food to the charity
Step 2: User can login in his personal account using id and
for the assistance of hungry people.
password.
'Aahar' is a Mobile phone Android program that gives Step 3: Search location wise and book the food items with
donors and NGOs with a assembly to donate and collect time.
food once they have successfully logged into the system. Step 4: After accepting the request from donor side
The system consists of three primary donor, NGOs and Step 5:After accepting the food volunteer will give
admin modules. The donor completes tasks like feedback about food taste and quality.
registration/login and adds items to the donation Step 6: Volunteer can logout the system.
request to be contributed and viewed. The recipient
does tasks such as requesting items, displaying 5. ALGORITHM
requested items and declare donations. The manager
5.1] NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING[NLP]
will track the collection and improve it. The
administrator and the donor also look the position of Sentiment analysis can be define as a process that
the recipient. The donor-donated items will be automates mining of attitudes, judgement, views and
displayed to other users as a reminder in the donation emotions from text, speech, tweets and database sources
tab and the message will be saved in the backend folder through Natural Language Processing (NLP). Sentiment
[5]. In the base paper, an automation is built with four analysis involves classifying judgement in text into
modules which focus on accounting the quantity of food categories like "positive" or "negative" or "neutral". It's also
being wasted, it is focused on creating an awareness by referred as subjectivity analysis, judgement mining, and
feeding the live data on how much food is being wasted, appraisal extraction. [8] Its often used by occupation to
it uses a database to store the quantity of food being detect sentiment in social data, gauge brand reputation,
wasted each day and later the presented data is and understand customers. Since humans express their
represented in graphs in order to encourage the thoughts and feelings more publicly than ever before,
students to reduce the wastage of food[6]. The sentiment analysis is fast becoming an essential tool to
automation elements are connected to the central data monitor and understand sentiment in all types of data.
store, the people counter module calculate the number Automatically analyzing customer feedback, such as
of people eating followed by the weighing scale module judgement in survey responses and social media
records the weight of the food waste and forward the conversations, allows brands to learn what makes
details to the central data store using the Wi-Fi dongle. customers happy or frustrated, so that they can tailor

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products and services to meet their customers 7. DESIGN DETAILS

requirement.

Fig 2 : Algorithm Step by Step Process

Fig 4 : Flow Chart
6. SYSTEM MODULES
8. ADVANTAGES

 Advantage will be both the restaurant (reducing food

wastage), and the needy .
 Keep track of waste food for restaurant.
 User can play character in saving food wastage and
help the needy.
 You can gift food from home easily.
 Easy to used and user friendly.
 Food waste will be reduced.

9. FUTURE SCOPE

 Also we extend our app to have many types of

donating users likewise from organizations such as
restaurants, family or a single user
 Adding the location facility to our apps. The donating
user should identify the location of the share food.
 Adding the time and date of each snack shared by
users
 Making the app supports multiple platforms

Fig 3 : Architecture Diagram 10. CONCLUSION

Our study has look into the problem of food waste that has
many serious side effects economically and socially.
However, the waste of the food can be prevented or at
lowest decreased using political rules and technology.
Mobile application technology is helpful for food waste

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management. The app objective to encourage better food 8. Sasikala P#1,Sentiment Analysis of Online Food Reviews
management. Our proposed solution should reduce food using Customer Ratings 2018.
waste by facilitating food sharing in group using mobile
technology. This work is an first step towards design a 9. Anusha Kailas Kogta,”Cross Platform Application for
better system to reduce daily food waste. Canteen Food Ordering System” June 2020.

11. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 10. Mobile Crowd Sensing Services for Tinnitus

Assessment, Therapy and Research, in 4th Intl Conf on
We owe sincere thanks to our college Atharva College Of Mobile Services. 2015.
Engineering for giving us a platform to prepared a project
on the topic "Waste Food Management and Donation App"
and would like to thank our principal Dr.Shrikant Kallurkar
for giving us the opportunities and time to conduct and
research on the topic. we are sincerely graceful for Prof.
Varsha Salunkhe as our guide and Dr. Suvarna Pansambal,
Head of Computer Engineering Department, and our
project coordinator Prof. Shweta Sharma for providing help
during our research, which would have seemed difficult
without their motivation, constant support and valuable
suggestion. Moreover, the complication of this research
paper would have been impossible without the co-
operation, suggestion and help of our friends and family.

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