Cafeteria Culture (CafCu)

K-12 schools- kickstart your #PlasticFreeLunch Day action with a FREE screening of MICROPLASTIC MADNESS 📽️Show the movie in your class/school. Free school viewing through April 30! @urbanschoolfood #k12schools #youth4climate #plasticpollution ▶️forms.gle/y975c67TCEwe49…

⏳ Today is the last day to vote! Vote now and support Cafeteria Culture’s $75K project to bring equitable environmental justice education to PS/MS 34. 🔗 Register & vote today: bit.ly/FIC-NY 💚 Every vote matters! #Flourish #NYC #Environment

🚨 We’re nominated for a $75K grant! Your vote can help us provide impactful environmental justice & composting education at PS/MS 34 on the Lower East Side! 🗳️ Register & vote (UNTIL 1/10): bit.ly/FIC-NY 💡 Vote for # 788! #Flourish #NYC

Our Exec Dir Debby Lee Cohen passed this month, but her passion continues thru the students leading Plastic Free Lunch all week across the US!! We honor DL today & every day by centering our students advocating 4 environmental justice & possibility. MORE: bit.ly/DebbyLee

Time to ban styrofoam nationwide! Founded in 2009 as Styrofoam Out of Schools, we have been advocating for this. 11 states, D.C. & cities across US are already there. TY @ChrisVanHollen @RepLloydDoggett usa.oceana.org/press-releases… No Styrofoam Tray Puppets youtu.be/SfrOln0FtDc?si…

🗓️Wed, April 3 is the next NYC School #plasticfreelunch day! K-12 teachers, get ready with a free screening of our award winning movie MICROPLASTIC MADNESS. 📢National Plastic Free Lunch Day - April 17-24 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Join schools for Plastic Free Lunch Day! ➡️ April 17-24, 2024 Reduce plastic in your school cafeteria for one day, a week, and every day. Started by students! Free resources: plasticfreelunch.org #plasticfree @urbanschoolfood

We don't have to accept plastic pollution. Take action & let your voice be heard. 🗣️ Sign the petition urging the United States to take a stronger stance on the Global #PlasticsTreaty! ✍🏼 bit.ly/plasticstreaty… 📸 by doctorphotograph #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic

These 6th graders from our program have been studying about local and global #plasticpollution since 4th grade. Last year, they partnered w/students from the southernmost part of Japan, Iriomote, sharing concerns &solutions, thanks to @JF_NewYork!

Thank you @HarveyforNY for speaking w/PS188M students re NYS Packaging Recycling Infrastructure Act. They ask NYS Assembly to pass a bill that makes plastic producers: 💲pay for their waste, 🌏 make less plastic, 🚫 redesign for reusables! @NYSA_Majority #breakfreefromplastic

@HarveyforNY @TheTechbrarian Thank you for meeting with our PS188 The Island School students. They were very honored! Our students ask the @NYSA_Majority to stay strong on asking producers to: 💲pay for their waste, 🌏 #makelessplastic, 🚫 redesign for #reusables!

Great visit to @TheTechbrarian Island School w/ @CafeteriaCu! I spoke w/ 6th graders about the need to pass the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act. They shared why it was important to them. I told them that I voted "yes" on it in committee this Tuesday!

Reduce #PlasticWaste in your school cafeteria with a simple student-led #WasteAudit. NYC PS34M #5thgraders collected data to share w kitchen staff & accelerate change! Movies, lessons, & more: plasticfreelunch.org #plasticfreelunch  #breakfreefromplastic #youth4climate

ICYMI 🔥☠️ Houston, TX experienced two toxic fires last week, causing evacuations or shelter-in-place. The common factor? #Plastic: a petrochemical facility upstream & a recycling facility downstream. The #plastic supply chain is dangerous at every step. bit.ly/3sz7e5x

NY sues @PepsiCo for #plastic harm. While corporate polluters profit, everyday people pay the price with polluted air, water & health risks. The public has foot the bill for too long. May this be the first of many more cases to hold polluters accountable. bit.ly/3sLT80x

Thank you @pas55SI for educating your school community on the harms of single-use plastic! One #PlasticFreeLunch Day leads to another!

Make every school day #plasticfree. Ask your #schoolfood mgr for 3 cost saving changes: 1replace single-use condiment packets w bulk service of sauces/dressings 2wrap sandwiches in bulk (put in serving trays w aluminum foil cover) 3offer plastic utensils "by request only."

Happy Plastic Free Lunch Day! Fun Fact: this initiative started in 2021 at PS 15 in Brooklyn in partnership with @CafeteriaCu and students. Now, it's a National movement. Check out today’s 4th grade lunch period! #plasticfreelunch #zerowasteschools #cafeteriaclimateaction

Plastic Free Lunch Day is November 8th. 🍎🍴 @CafeteriaCu Why should you get involved?  👉School cafeterias serve over 7️⃣ billion meals per year 👉 School meals are loaded with single-use plastics 👉We are all eating and breathing plastic. cafeteriaculture.org/plastic-free-l…