We are a group of student from the Grand Challenges program in Georgia Tech working to decrease the excessive food waste that occurs at the downstream level in the U.S. We’re currently brainstorming and ideating solutions to meet this grand challenge.

Charlie Bauer in Tackling Downstream Food Waste in the U.S

Nov 24, 2020

Lean Canvas and Analysis Introduction

Who cares about food waste? — A Stakeholder Analysis through Interviews

Food is thrown in the landfill by the ton daily. Consumers choose how to use their food and workers are still paid for it. Why does anyone care about food waste? Our team approached this question by talking…

Cynthia Wang in Tackling Downstream Food Waste in the U.S

Nov 6, 2020

Mapping the Downstream Food Waste System

Now that we had identified the “Who’s,” “Why’s,” and “So What’s” of our problem space, we…

Michael Zhou in Tackling Downstream Food Waste in the U.S

Nov 6, 2020

Our 5 Who’s, Why’s, and So What’s for Food Waste

A first look at the wicked problem

Charlie Bauer in Tackling Downstream Food Waste in the U.S

Nov 5, 2020

Food Waste: A Fermi Analysis

The Impact of 10% Reduction in U.S. Food Waste

Jeannie Zhang in Tackling Downstream Food Waste in the U.S

Nov 5, 2020

Brainstorming & Choosing the Problem Space

At the beginning of October, as we sat down in the Grand Challenges classroom, the…

James Hanus in Tackling Downstream Food Waste in the U.S

Nov 5, 2020

About Us

Hello! We are a group of first-year students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who are part of a program known as Grand Challenges. In this class, we are tasked with finding a point of contention within complex world systems, and then creating a solution that can possibly ease this issue. The projects…