Propuesta de creación de una aplicación móvil para rescatar el excedente de comida y reducir la contaminación ambiental en Guayaquil.

Abstract

The present titling work Proposal for the creation of a mobile application to rescue surplus food and reduce environmental pollution in Guayaquil aims to determine the viability and feasibility of the proposal, whose proposal intends to provide a solution or be part of it. food waste that today is one of the causes of environmental pollution. According to the United Nations Environment Program (2021a) approximately one fifth of all the world's food ends up in the trash. In Ecuador each person wastes an average of 72 kilograms of food per year. (United Nations [UN], 2021). The methodology of the study is of a mixed approach, that is, quantitative and qualitative, of a descriptive scope and of a non-experimental type. The sample is made up of 385 people to whom a questionnaire was applied through the implementation of the Google Form tool. The research concludes that comfort is the main reason why people order at home, this being 53% of the total number of people surveyed, followed by the lack of time to cook with 29%. It was also possible to determine the feasibility of the proposal through financial analysis, obtaining a NPV $3,641.19 IRR 31% PAYBACK 3 years and 6 months, being a profitable project. Where the initial investment of the proposal is $30,748.53; financing sources are 65% of $19,986.54 and the remaining 35% are covered by shareholders; the advertising expenses of the project add up to $3,600.00.