RESEARCH

SECONDARY RESEARCH

  • 1/4 of food meant for human consumption ends up in landfills every year.

  • 12 Full meals can be recovered from a large supermarket every day

  • 29.3% of people around the word suffer from food insecurity


USER NEEDS

  • Our users are those who are currently suffering from food insecurity. As a result, we must first empathize with the user and develop a list of problems we might solve.

  • To do this, immediate, and latent needs are listed separately as well as potential wants/wishes of the user that we might implement later in the design phase.

INTERACTION

INTERACTION PROCESS

  • Mobility Bank vehicles are used to collect food waste from local food retailers.

  • On board, this food is evaluated, cleaned, and processed before being arranged on to trays.

  • Trays are inserted into dehydrator carts, and secured until all food processing is complete. Vehicles are then directed to local food banks.

  • Upon arrival, dehydrator carts are unloaded, and plugged into a docking station.

  • Carts from previous delivery will be collected, replacing the carts dropped off. The dehydration process will then perform for an extended period of time

THE PROCESS

GROCERY STORE

  • Incentive programs request customer involvement

  • Several containers installed throughout retailers letting customers sort through product themselves

  • Mobility Bank volunteers visit grocery stores & supermarkets to collect this waste


DEHYDRATOR CARTS

  • 360 Degrees of movement throughout travel

  • Self-cleaning feature after dehydration process

  • Pull down handle, can be tucked away to store


DOCKING STATION

  • Located in each local food bank

  • Carts docked to proceed with dehydration process

  • Secures Cart in place during dehydration

INTERIOR

GALLERY

THESIS DOSSIER

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED DOSSIER FOR A MORE IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THIS THESIS PROJECT


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