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Food Waste Hackathon 2014 winners

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Congratulations to Team Cozy (Viktoria Cermanova, Nicolas Durish, Michel Wojitas, and Gabriel Pothier-Maudsley) for their winning entry at this weekend’s Student Food Waste Hackathon at the University of Guelph!

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This team developed a proposal and supporting software for a “Smartbin” system  to “collect organic food materials and weigh the amount of food waste, then calculate the amount of money lost individually and the financial loss for the school.”

We are hopeful that this and other innovative contest entries can be further developed to help address food waste at the University of Guelph and on other university campuses.

For more info about the Hackathon: https://www.uoguelph.ca/foodinstitute/event/student-food-waste-hackathon-feeding-nine-billion-challenge

For more photos and updates on this event: https://twitter.com/hashtag/foodhack14

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Food waste in Metro Vancouver

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We (Kate Parizeau and Mike von Massow) attended a series of meetings on food waste hosted by the Metro Vancouver regional government earlier this summer. Metro Van has been very active in working to reduce food waste, including banning the final disposal of organic waste at landfills and transfer stations as of 2015. Presentations from the Regional Food System Roundtable (June 19, 2014) can be found here:

http://www.metrovancouver.org/planning/development/AgricultureAndFood/Pages/RegionalFoodSystemStrategy.aspx