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Zero Waste Campus Dining, Jenny Caudillo, Sarah Dahel, Youlen Ghazalian
Zero Waste Campus Dining, Jenny Caudillo, Sarah Dahel, Youlen Ghazalian
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Cal Poly Campus Dining has a goal of becoming a zero waste entity by providing their customers with alternative methods of disposing their trash. Their current operations produce waste, specifically their methods of packaging the food. Campus dining plans to be more sustainable by providing their customers with reusable containers. The objective of this implementation is to reduce waste produced from one-time use, disposable food containers. The success criteria for the desired system is based around the ability to track and measure the reusable containers to prevent further waste, while providing the user an accommodating environment to ensure they will …