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Charlotte Aschim was working in grocery stores when she was a student. She was astounded to see the tremendous amounts of food being wasted at the end of every day. So she started a "manual logbook" of expiration dates to help give the store a better overview, and started to think about how technology could benefit the business. Years later, she develops an app to digitize food inventory management and help fight food waste while saving consumers' time and money!

Charlotte Aschim is CEO and Co-Founder of the Norwegian startup TotalCtrl, which makes food waste prevention software for grocery stores, hotels, and restaurants. Charlotte has been named one of Europe’s most inspiring food waste change makers, one of the top 80 Norwegian leaders under 35, and is a European Green Capital Ambassador. TotalCtrl is looking to integrate with other software companies food management solutions so if you’re in that space, get in touch!

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#packdemia is a non-profit initiative and humanitarian project formed in response to COVID-19. Their mission is to distribute hundreds of thousands of hospital beds to temporary hospitals all over the world in a way that is effective and affordable. Unlike a standard hospital bed, the Packdemia Bed-Kit is 100 times cheaper, easily palletized, quickly assembled, and is made from recyclable cardboard, while still preserving the traditional functionality of a 3-position adjustable backrest.

How can designers improve the functionality of digital experiences for disabled users without allowing their own biases to define the wrong problems and create the wrong solutions? How can designing for accessibility be built into the entirety of the design process, not just slapped on at the end?

Scientists say they’ve developed a kind of plastic that can be recycled an unlimited number of times.