The Problem: A non-profit organization operating a reusable takeout container program to replace single-use plates/clamshells at fast-moving events are losing 20-30% of containers to folks who want to take them home. This makes the program unsustainable and causes a financial problem for te company. The Solution: A way to keep customers accountable for returning the company's reusables that is efficient by creating an app or website that tracks the reusable containers and holds each container into a database that checks whether that container has been returned or not. Each container is assigned a qr code pertaining to the user.
The landing page would have sections of a landing page, user page, container page, and return page. Users in the landing page can sign in and register their card info into the app/website aswell as find information about the program and other contacts. At an event, the user can scan the barcode/qr code contained in the container and is saved to the container page and saved into a database linking their user with the container. The return page will include a return station's location that will check the user's container and safely return it physically and digitally.
Help features including broken or missing containers. Set up a direct payment portal in the website/app. A way to limit the amount a user can obtain a container before returning a previous container.