EcoTeam

Kardelen Karaca

İstanbul Technical University Mechanical Engineering

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Mehmet Özgür Duman

İstanbul Technical University Industrial Engineering

Along with the pandemic, food or grocery orders increased considerably. The increase in these orders has also led to an increase in plastic and paper waste, such as bags and straw. Our project is about recycling these wastes correctly.

Our Idea

• In order to reduce this plastic and door consumption, we are considering using motor couriers through food ordering applications.
• When the paper and plastic wastes that come with the food order are over a certain amount, you will call a motor courier through the food order applications and send these wastes.
• The waste you give will be separated and recycled appropriately.

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• It is designed as an application to be integrated into the applications we order food every day.
• Every time we order a new meal, the motor courier will pick up the paper and plastic waste from our previous order.
• In order to encourage the consumer, every customer who recycle their waste with this application will be given a discount coupon from selected restaurants in their new order.
• Consumers may not find enough motivation and time to recycle their waste. With this application, recycling comes to the consumer's feet and provides new opportunities to the consumer.

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The target audience of this app is anyone who uses food ordering apps and values ​​the environment.

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We think that the discount in the next order will encourage consumers.

The Idea's Success Prediction

It is possible to see the success of similar applications in the sector. For example, H&M gives a fifteen percent discount to consumers who bring their old clothes. The name of this project is “Recycling in Fashion”.

Consumers who are sensitive to the environment and want to benefit from discounts support this application.

The biggest advantage of our idea is not spending extra money or fuel on the employer. In addition, the relevant company can reuse the recycled waste.

All these increase the chances of success of our idea.

Estimations

Since it is not an application that wastes customers' time, customers can easily adopt it. It is very practical to use.

Applications where customers order food will have a "Receive my past order waste." option on the payment screen.

Customers who click on this option will be entitled to a discount on their future orders. This is the key element that gets the customer to adopt the idea.

Our Team

Kardelen Karaca

• Istanbul Technical University
• Mechanical Engineering
• Anadolu Efes-Logistic Intern

Mehmet Özgür Duman

• Istanbul Technical University
• Industrial Engineering
• Denizbank-Intern

In the coming years, we will expand our team with new entrepreneurial spirits.We want to increase the number of people in our team to fifty in the next three years. We aim to carry this idea out of the food industry as well.