♻ WasteNot – Food Redistribution Platform

WasteNot is our hackathon project aimed at reducing food waste by connecting food donors (restaurants, homes, businesses) with NGOs who need it.
This digital platform enables real-time food posting, claiming, and tracking — helping bridge the gap between surplus and scarcity.

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🔍 Inspiration & Research

We have extensively researched the issue of edible food waste and its impact on both the environment and food insecurity.
The name “WasteNot” is inspired by existing real-world initiatives and open-source efforts addressing similar challenges globally.
We’re building a simplified and localized version tailored to our hackathon use case.

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🚀 What We're Building

• ✅ Donors can post excess edible food
• ✅ NGOs can view and claim food in need
• ✅ Simple login for each role (Donor/NGO)
• ✅ Dashboard showing active food availability

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🧠 Why WasteNot?

Every day, tons of good food is thrown away. WasteNot provides a sustainable, software-only solution to help solve this — without IoT or physical infrastructure. It fosters a circular food economy through transparency, trust, and action.

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🔥 New Feature Added: Money Donation 💸

We’ve introduced a Money Donor module where users can:

• Register as a donor or receiver.
• View live NGO fundraisers with progress tracking.
• Donate money directly to verified NGOs.
• Track donation history from the "My Donations" page.

💡 Pages Added for Money Donation:

• donation.php – Donor/Receiver role selection
• moneydonor.php – donor registration
• moneyreceiver.php- receiver registration
• donation_donor.php – View and donate to fundraisers
• donate.php – Process a single donation (by ngo_id)
• my_donations.php – Donor can track all donations
• donation_receiver – NGO can add new fundraisers (for admin/NGO role)

🔧 Tech Stack

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
• Backend: PHP (Core) + MySQL
• Database Tool: phpMyAdmin
• Local Server: XAMPP

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🛠 Project Status

🟡 MVP in Progress
✅ Database schema ready
🔜 Working on dashboard and authentication

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🧑‍💻 Team Greenbridge

Member	Responsibility
👩 Member 1	Frontend Design
👩 Member 2	Authentication Logic
👩 Member 3	Database + Dashboard
👩 Member 4	Docs + GitHub + PPT

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💡 Problem Statement

Millions of tons of edible food are wasted due to the lack of coordination between food donors and recipients.

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✅ Proposed Solution

Build a simple platform where donors can create accounts and eventually post food details — enabling NGOs or receivers to claim surplus food.

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⚙ How to Run WasteNot with XAMPP (after extracting)

✅ 1. Download & Set Up XAMPP

• Download from https://www.apachefriends.org
• Start Apache and MySQL from the XAMPP control panel

✅ 2. Move Project to htdocs

• Move your extracted folder (e.g wastenot`) to:

C:\xampp\htdocs\wastenot

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✅ 3. Create Database

• Open: http://localhost/phpmyadmin
• Click Import, then select and upload the schema.sql file provided
• A new database will be created (e.g., 'donorpage')

  ✅ 4. Configure db.php

Edit includes/db.php as follows:

php $servername = "localhost"; $username = "root"; $password = ""; $dbname = "donorpage" $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname); if ($conn->connect_error) { die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error); } `

✅ 5. Run the Project in Browser

Open:

http://localhost/wastenot

You can now:

• Register a donor
• Log in securely
• View homepage and About Us

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Future Scope

• Admin Panel & Analytics
• Google Maps API for pickup location
• Not beyond to food only

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📢 Credits

• Built by Team Greenbridge for hackorbit
• PHP and SQL by Member 3
• UI by Member 1

📌 This repo is finally uploaded completely along with demo video

Stay tuned as we build WasteNot — a step toward zero food waste! 💚