Recipient of the 2013 Environmental Quality Award 
from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Learn More >
VICTORY! New York City Council unanimously votes to ban styrene foam!
(see press here and more details here)
THANK YOU for taking action and helping us to achieve our first goal:
 eliminating toxic and polluting styrene foam from our schools and from our lives!
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NEWS

NYC and the 5 largest US school districts in have issued a request for bids (or RFP) for  school food compostable plates!
This contract will eliminate 2.9 MILLION styrene foam school trays used per day!
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THANK YOU, NYC Office of School Food for listening and working with us on this issue.

ENDORSEMENTS

"Cafeteria Culture's ARTS+ACTION program was the perfect compliment to the Cafeteria Ranger’s program.   Together, they solidified the concept of environmental activism in our students’ minds and lives by stitching together multiple school-day elements to support conservation.  Thank you for everything!"
James Lee, Principal
PS20 Anna Silver School

"Thanks to CafCu's tireless endeavors, we have seen a 20 percent reduction in the amount of polystyrene trays used in our schools... We are grateful for your environmental advocacy and for the incredible work you and your colleagues do with our students." 
Dennis M. Walcott, Chancellor 
NYC Department of Education

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CAFETERIA WASTE REDUCTION
SCHOOL PROGRAM

Coming Soon: Our Multi-Media Toolkit
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See Our Program in Action! 

See our "Teaching Students to be Advocates" and more inspiring  videos here.

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IMPACT

Inspired NYC School Food to initiate collective  purchasing of compostable plates with the 5 largest US school districts to replace styrene foam trays!
Catalyzed Trayless Tuesdays: one day a week without polystyrene trays in 1,700 NYC public schools, at no extra cost to the city
Trayless Tuesdays has diverted over 80 million polystyrene trays from the landfills and incinerators since 2010
Built coalitions across sectors,  leading to NYC  ban of styrene foam!
Initiated a private-public partnership that sparked NYC's school composting pilot; to be implemented in all 1700 schools in 2015!