Cafeteria Culture (CafCu)
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Working creatively w/youth for zero waste, climate smart schools & a plastic free biosphere; w/citizen science, civic action, +media #MicroplasticMadness movie
New York
Joined May 2010
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 ▶️ https://t.co/u6bEpeJRnE
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⏳ 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: https://t.co/qRsVXkZkt3 💚 Every vote matters! #Flourish #NYC #Environment
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🚨 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): https://t.co/qRsVXkZkt3 💡 Vote for # 788! #Flourish #NYC
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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: https://t.co/R9CMwzmqCw
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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
https://t.co/qBYDKSY06J No Styrofoam Tray Puppets
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🗓️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 https://t.co/hZDFq1goBf
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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: https://t.co/ZQKNvGxhgH
#plasticfree
@urbanschoolfood
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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! ✍🏼 https://t.co/IHOczU9FGP 📸 by doctorphotograph #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic
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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!
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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
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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: https://t.co/ZQKNvGxhgH
#plasticfreelunch #breakfreefromplastic #youth4climate
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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.
houstonchronicle.com
There has been a hazardous chemical incident — leaks, spills, explosions, or fires —...
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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.
washingtonpost.com
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is accusing the snack and soda giant of polluting the Buffalo River with plastic from its products.
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Thank you @pas55SI for educating your school community on the harms of single-use plastic! One #PlasticFreeLunch Day leads to another!
CAST Climate Action Sustainability Team getting ready for Plastic Free Lunch Day on November 8th. Educating our community on the harmful effects of not re cycling plastic properly. #PS55ShiningWithPride
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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."
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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
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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. https://t.co/SS6g0lq3uL
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It’s Plastic Free Lunch Day! Students and school nutrition professionals join forces again for the 3rd national Plastic Free Lunch Day, a growing movement to ditch single-use plastics. https://t.co/Y1bECQernq It’s never too late to take #plasticfreelunch action!
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