Carbon Footprint Awareness

A carbon footprint is the amount of CO2 (carbon dioxide) that is released from a particular human activity. Because CO2 is a "greenhouse gas", or a gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy withint the thermal infrared range, they get trapped in our atmosphere and emit heat. This causes our global temperature to rise, thus paving the way for devastation as a result of global warming (including climate change).

This matters because when the global temperature rises it can cause a multitude of issues, which can be narrowed down to: Altering of cryosphere (ice-based regions of Earth) and oceans, agriculture is compromised (leading to starvation), and natural habitats and dying (habitat loss in areas such as the Arctic, coral reefs, and forests can lead to massive death or extinction of animals crucial to the Earth's ecosystem).

Our food scanner uses visual processing in Python to identify the food you scan, but if you do not have a camera, you can type in the 12-digit barcode id. It will then scan a database and through a trained artificial intelligence program (neural network), the scanner will identify the carbon footprint of the item you are consuming.
This can help the cause to combat climate change and environmental issues by giving individuals the knowledge they need to make good choices. We will provide the user with statistics based on the food they have chosen to consume.