According to the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, food waste is one of the biggest waste streams in Singapore, and the amount generated has grown by around 30% over the last 10 years. In 2018 alone, 763 million kilograms – the weight of over 54,000 double decker buses – of food waste was generated.

With that mission in mind, the quartet, made up of Tengku Hafidz (27), a Tech Associate at GovTech, Mohammad Hazmie Bin Ja’afar (26) at PwC, Musa Bin Rahamat (26), a Product Engineer at Circles.Life, and Ahmad Syafiq Bin Ruhazat (24), a final year Computer Science undergraduate at NUS, came up with the Makan Rescue app, which alerts users to the nearest buffet that has leftovers.

Makan Rescue is a mobile application that notifies users when there are free food or food surpluses nearby, that they can claim. The app will also allow users to notify others of available food surpluses.