Success Stories: AI Helps Reduce Food Waste - Connected World

Technology and innovation are playing an increasingly important role in addressing food waste and food insecurity. As companies and organizations look for smarter ways to manage resources, we are seeing new opportunities to use AI (artificial intelligence) and logistics to make a difference in communities across the country.

As one example, Purdue University computer science researcher Alex Psomas has developed a program called Food Drop that helps reroute truckloads of excess food from landfills to food banks and food pantries. The innovative program uses AI and optimization algorithms to identify which food banks are open, what food they need, and how much space they have available. So far, the program has helped redirect more than 50 tons of food from landfills to people in need across Indiana and Ohio.

Here is how this can help:

• Reduce food waste by redirecting usable food that would otherwise end up in landfills.
• Improve...

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