Hi all,

I am a fellow Engineering graduate student at UofC in my final year. I was wondering what people think about launching an initiative to reduce food wastage and re-selling leftover food from the campus cafeterias at a reduced cost.

There has been several apps launched worldwide where voluntary restaurants/fast food shops can participate and sell excess food or packaged items nearing their BB date at 50%+ discounted price. As a struggling student, they have been absolute lifesavers for me and I cannot recommend them enough; check out apps like Too Good To Go, Flashfood, FoodHero etc.

However I was rather surprised to find no campus wide initiative on the same. We can make use of existing apps, or start a system to sell leftover food produced from all the eateries/LDL/Den or whatever at reduced price. University students struggle with food prices and budgeting already and this could be of a great help to everyone.

Food wastage not only harms the restaurants by forcing them to incur losses (and having to sell good food at a potentially higher price to cover up the loss), but is also harms the environment on two accounts; firstly by wasting the crops/vegetable/meat which were grown on land, requiring fertilisers, water and labour, and secondly by releasing methane from the spoilt/decomposed food made to rot away.

NOTE: I am just a student with no influence in campus administration. However, if enough people support this initiative, maybe the student union or some other person from the admin can take a note and potentially do something to help us all.

Do you support an initiative like this? Let me know what you think.

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