Food rescue system for UVa dining and Charlottesville community

Currently in the UVa dining hall facilities approximately 250 salvageable meals are thrown away each day. These meals are taken to a landfill about eighty meals away and deposited as waste. In Charlottesville there is a need of more than 3,000 meals per day. Several organizations in the community serve meals to those in need. A system needs to be implemented in order to prevent this environmental damage as well as to ensure that the hungry citizens of Charlottesville get fed. This paper aim to discuss the approach and functionality of the system to be implemented. There are several aspects of the system to be viewed. The steps taken to reach each aspect was also discussed. Some examples include the goals and objectives of the system, as well as the alternative solutions generated and a risk analysis. Currently, a solution choice has been made and applied for. The solution is to use the campus kitchen program. This was a student-operated program that runs out of Runk Dining Hall at UVa. Several pilot runs have been made and are continuing to be made in order to test the functionality of the system.