Clear Plate®: Tackling Food Waste

To respond to this major challenge, Clear Plate® guides users to practice zero food waste with an innovative model of combining Technology, Charity and Rewards.

Clear Plate works as follows. First, users will take pictures of their plates after meals. An AI is used to identify if food has been leftover, and users with clean plates will receive credits. These credits can then be exchanged for gifts, or donated as charity meals for people in need.

By offering such rewards, Clear Plate® is able to raise awareness on food waste and incentivise people to address it. Our simple, engaging and easy-to-use app has also effectively facilitated change in individual and community behavior, directly targets food waste at the consumer level.

Typically, the food life-cycle begins from feed production and processing, transportation, and food waste ends up at landfills to be incinerated, composted and so on. By reducing food waste, we substantially decrease the amount of emissions generated throughout the life-cycle. We believe that everyone can play an active role to reduce food waste and emissions.