Sustainability and waste reporting

Purpose

1.1. Automates sustainability and waste data collection, reporting, and compliance for food courts, streamlining regulatory adherence and internal analytics.
1.2. Automatedly fetches waste quantities, recycling rates, energy usage, and vendor reporting from point-of-sale, IoT sensors, and vendor submissions.
1.3. Enables automated compliance submissions to authorities, produces digitized sustainability dashboards, and automates notifications for breaches or sustainability milestones.
1.4. Integrates ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) frameworks and automates periodic audits on waste, recycling, and food waste practices.
1.5. Supports automatable analytics for trends, outlier detection, and predictive sustainability planning.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated daily closing of POS or weighing station logs triggers automated sustainability data pulls.
2.2. Scheduled monthly/quarterly compliance deadlines automate report generation.
2.3. Automated receipt of sensor/IoT energy and bin fill data triggers reporting automator.
2.4. Vendor file uploads of waste manifest triggers automated dashboard updates.
2.5. Automated threshold breaches (e.g., excessive waste per stall) trigger alerts and compliance automations.

Platform Variants

3.1. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Automate scheduled SharePoint data pulls, configure Recurrence + Get Items.
3.2. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Google Sheets + Slack automation, trigger on new row for instant data relay.
3.3. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: Automate sustainability API ingest with Pub/Sub trigger for event-based automation.
3.4. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Configure S3 event trigger to automatedly process uploaded waste data.
3.5. Salesforce Sustainability Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Automate compliance report generation with Flow Builder.
3.6. Tableau
• Feature/Setting: Web Data Connector automates visualization refresh on submission.
3.7. Power BI
• Feature/Setting: Schedule Dataflow to auto-refresh and automate sustainability dashboards.
3.8. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: App Script automates data ingestion and regulatory export on schedule.
3.9. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Automated workflow triggers based on data entry for escalation/notifications.
3.10. IBM Watson IoT
• Feature/Setting: Configure rule-based event automator for waste sensor alerts via API.
3.11. Oracle Integration Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Automated file ingestion using Integration Flows for compliance data.
3.12. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automate notifications and dashboard updates using automation recipes.
3.13. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Workflow Builder automates alert and report deliverables in compliance channel.
3.14. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Automate recurring task and checklist for each reporting cycle.
3.15. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Butler automates board actions and sustainability card assignments.
3.16. Google Forms
• Feature/Setting: Trigger Apps Script automation for data pipeline on submission.
3.17. Make (Integromat)
• Feature/Setting: Automated scenario for multichannel data routing and CSV parsing.
3.18. Notion
• Feature/Setting: Automate sustainability database updates via webhook integration.
3.19. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Airtable Automations for real-time field-level compliance data routing.
3.20. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Flow Designer automates ESG ticket generation and audit logging.

Benefits

4.1. Automates labor-intensive reporting and frees staff for value-add activities.
4.2. Ensures always-on compliance through automated reminders and submission automators.
4.3. Reduces human error with automated, auditable data chains.
4.4. Enables near real-time sustainability analytics automatedly for executive visibility.
4.5. Automates corrective workflows for green violations and sustainability initiatives.
4.6. Automatable expansion to new ESG KPIs and regulatory changes without manual overhaul.