Positive Carbon provides a fully automated food waste monitoring system for the hospitality industry, utilizing overhead sensors to track and analyze food waste in real-time. This technology enables businesses to identify waste patterns, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals by providing actionable insights into their food disposal practices.
Funding
$3.7M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
The hospitality industry faces challenges in accurately monitoring and managing food waste, leading to unnecessary costs and hindering sustainability efforts. Traditional methods lack real-time visibility into waste patterns, making it difficult to identify areas for improvement in purchasing and food preparation.
Solution
Positive Carbon offers an automated food waste monitoring system that provides real-time insights into food disposal practices. Overhead sensors identify and analyze every item discarded, enabling businesses to track waste patterns, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals. The system delivers detailed itemization, recipe integration, cost correlation, and trend analysis through web and mobile applications, as well as email and SMS reports. A bespoke learning and development platform further drives staff behavior and engagement to systemically reduce food waste across all locations.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes hotels, schools, hospitals, universities, and corporate cafeterias seeking to reduce food waste, lower costs, and improve sustainability efforts.
Features
- Overhead sensors for real-time identification and analysis of discarded food items
- Web and mobile applications for accessing waste data and trends
- Email and SMS alerts for immediate notification of high waste activities
- Detailed itemization, recipe integration, and cost correlation for precise waste tracking
- Learning and development platform with courses, recipes, videos, and quizzes to promote waste reduction strategies
- Integration with existing kitchen reports through daily email reports
- Automated onboarding process for quick and easy setup