teachers, families, and ​communities everywhere,
 ages 8 - 98!
WATCH THE VIDEO!
Scroll down for Data Sheet and Guide

DIY Data+Action Litter Clean Up from Cafeteria Culture on Vimeo.

Finished collecting? Share your data->

Tired of seeing litter on our streets and beaches? 

- Collect litter + litter data
-Share your 
data and photos
for lasting impact
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-Share your local data with decision makers
to accelerate plastic reduction policy!

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Engage community on Zero Waste!
Invite a friend, relative or neighbor.

TEACHERS
merge science with social studies
and get students outdoors!

STUDENTS
earn Community Service hours  (more->)​

Litter clean-ups are a great way to:

• Beautify our neighborhoods
• Keep plastic out of our waterways
• Reduce rats and rodents​ ​

Litter data collection is great way to:

• Advance policy with "community science" 
• Determine problematic litter items
• Grab attention of policy makers

clean-ups + data collection
= lasting change
in 3 steps:
1- Be sure your location is safe,
then organize supplies & a small team 
for street or beach litter clean-up (solo or small group)
2- Collect the litter and litter data;
 TAKE PHOTOS!
3- Upload data + photos;
post BEFORE & AFTER litter photos
on social media!
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It's easy and fun!
Detailed directions in HOW TO GUIDE

Together, we can protect our health,
​environment, ​and marine wildlife.

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⬇︎View & Download ⬇︎

HOW TO GUIDE

DATA SHEET

When you finish the collection,
remember to share your data ⬇︎

DATA INPUT - GOOGLE FORM (online)

​​Read the "Safety Guide" -->
Info for
​TEACHERS and STUDENTS ->

scroll down for inspiration⬇︎

View and download ⬇︎ 
​"DATA SHEET" (2 pages)

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add your data to this form!

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CafCu's short videos to inspire your group!
Students from CafCu's school programs have been leading street and beach litter surveys for years.
​They have been sharing their local litter data with family, friends, local business, and policy makers.!

WATCH OUR MOVIES ON YOUTUBE

Watch our MOVIES ON VIMEO

​For more inspiration and to learn more about the plastic pollution crisis,
host or attend a screening of our award winning feature documentary,
MICROPLASTIC MADNESS
​watch the trailer

Do Litter Clean-ups with Data Collection
actually accelerate behavioral and policy change?
​Yes!
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In 2016-2017, Cafeteria Culture was awarded a competitive Trash Free Waters grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency to lead a pilot program. 

COMMUNITY ARTS+MEDIA for TRASH FREE WATERS (CAM 4 TFW) was a school-community partnership and demonstration project led in three low-income, urban communities of Red Hook (PS 15 Patrick F. Daly) and East Flatbush (MS 246 Walt Whitman) in Brooklyn, and Manhattan's Alphabet City (PS 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt).

After all the actions in all three communities (including outreach, bag give-aways, student banners posted, presentations) ,the amount of litter was reduce by 40% in all communities (excluding the cigarette butt litter). 

Additionally, students presented their data to policy makers, including PS 15 K 5th grade students testifying at a NYC Council Waste Water Treatment hearing.
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Students from Cafeteria Culture's "Community Arts+Media for Plastic Free Waters" program at PS/MS34 in Manhattan, Lower East Side.

Plastic Free Lunch Day was ​started by students in Cafeteria Culture's program at PS 15 in Brooklyn!