Somewhere in France, a small village called Auneuil still resists food waste… This presentation, which looks like Asterix adventures, launches a video produced by students from Le Point du Jour college in Auneuil, published on the sciencefactor website. Fr. Science Factor is a competition one of the objectives of which is to promote the place of women in science (the head of the project must be a woman).
The pre-selections for this competition are made by the votes of Internet users. The local college has already garnered nearly 700 votes (That happens here !), as proof of the relevance of this idea entitled “Canteen application (meals, nutritional quality, waste)”. Internet users have until January 5 to vote.
We are talking about a revolutionary application against food waste, born in the minds of four college students (and their colleagues in the scientific workshop) including three 5th year students: Ambre Goffart – Cothenet (team leader) , Ambre Fournol Cailliau, Zoé Janon and a 3rd year student: Romain Muller. In competition with 47 other schools from different French departments (even outside mainland France, Reunion Island also participates, note), Auneuil intends to stand out with its “canteen application”.
The project
The pupils of the Le Point du Jour college had noticed that at the end of the service, they no longer necessarily had a choice and that some college students threw a lot of food. They therefore offer a device so that college students can book their meals via an application. The quantity of waste and the nutritional quality of the meal will also be available. The cook has access to the students’ orders and this makes it possible to prepare as accurately as possible in order to limit rejected food waste and food waste. This should enable the college to fight against food waste, limit the amount of waste and improve the nutritional quality of college students’ meals.
Innovative
Some establishments have already offered applications to reserve meals in high school, other schools educate schoolchildren about their waste by weighing it in the canteen. “We therefore propose to try to combine the two, to computerize the weighing, to give them an indicator of ‘success’ on their rejections and to inform the students of the nutritional quality of their meal”, describe these students from the science workshop.
Photo: Due to the health crisis, the science festival was necessarily special at the Point du Jour college in Auneuil last October. (archive photo)
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