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Students in Calgary, Alberta, Develop Food Waste App
The app is in partnership with the Leftovers Foundation.
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Students Leanne Bui, Veyra Pascual, Traneice Aranda and Donnattella Salvador have developed a mobile app called Leftovers that’s designed to help combat food waste. The four women attend Bishop McNally High School in Calgary, Alberta.
The app is associated with the Leftovers Foundation, an organization that picks up excess food from retailers and delivers it to service agencies. The app allows food vendors to enter food they have leftover and notifies volunteers to pick it up.
CBC Canada has more information:
All four women were attending Bishop McNally High School in Calgary when they entered the Technovation Challenge in 2017. The contest is a global tech entrepreneurship competition for high school girls, and their goal was to pitch something that would help combat food waste.
Through the competition they met Lourdes Juan, founder of the Leftovers Foundation in Calgary. Volunteers with her organization pick up excess food from vendors and restaurants in both Calgary and Edmonton, and distribute it to service agencies rather than seeing it go to landfill.
"We had a similar idea, and it just aligned. It was perfect timing," said Salvador about meeting Juan.
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