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SORT2SAVE kit is here! Start a Cafeteria Ranger program today with our online toolkit. It's FREE!

9/25/2016

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Have you been wanting to start a school cafeteria recycling program but can't get past the first step? We know the chaallenges and we have the perfect resource, SORT2save.org. It's fun, it's free and now is an excellent time of the school year of to start a student-led Cafeteria Ranger program.
Get started with these 8 steps! 
SORT2save school cafeteria recylcing and composting
The SORT2SAVE KIT - Cafeteria Ranger Program is hands-on service learning and student leadership in the cafeteria. Students oversee all recycling and sorting on a rotating schedule. All students can participate.
Make your school's zero waste intiative fun - in 8 steps! 

The SORT2SAVE KIT  includes "edu-taing" videos (on YouTube, on Vimeo, or on our S2s video page here->), kid friendly signs, Ranger badges, introduction letter/email templates for teachers and parents, and so much more! 
SORT2save how-to videos
Watch the SORT2save how-to videos YouTube here!
Here are just a few of the benefits that typically result from a Cafeteria Ranger program:
- A significant reduction of your school's cafeteria garbage due to improved sorting
- Increased awareness of the benefits of recycling, composting, and reduction
- Provides new leadership pportunities for students during school meal time
- Saves custodian and school food staff labor time by reducing the overall number of  bags being pulled from garbage and recycling bins
- Fewer plastic bags are used, whih means saving money and resources, as well as reducing the amount of plastic that is going to landfills and incinerators
- A cleaner cafeteria floor, which saves custodians and school food staff time
- Improvement of the overall quality of the cafeteria experience
- An excellent starting point that leads to infusing a 
zero waste culture school wide!

Get started at SORT2save.org!
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NEST+m, our new partner school, wins a 2016 Super Recyclers - Golden Apple Award!

6/22/2016

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A huge congratulations to our new partner school, NEST+m, for winning a 2016 Super Recyclers - Golden Apple Award! We are very proud of NEST+m's collaborative efforts on working towards a zero waste school.  In January 2016, this K-12 NYC Department of Education school reduced their daily cafeteria garbage from 350 pounds (30 bags) to less than 9 pounds (2 bags) per day by implementing our Cafeteria Ranger Program. Students learned the why and the how of sorting and waste reduction and took on daily leadership roles in the cafeteria. 

​Ms. Wilen's 3rd grade class also took on dedicated advocacy and action leadership roles, not only to reduce school garbage but, to reduce local land-based ‪plastic litter that becomes global ocean pollution. 

Thank you to the NEST+m PTA for generously supporting Cafeteria Culture's Arts+Action Zero Waste Schools program at NEST+m!"New Explorations into Science Technology and Math (NEST+m) is unique because it is the only K - 12 public school located in Manhattan. NEST + m collaborated with Cafeteria Culture to jump start its recycling program with the K-5 students as leaders. The strength of this program is that it teaches the whys and hows of recycling and that the K-5 students are very enthusiastic participants."


"New Explorations into Science Technology and Math (NEST+m) is unique because it is the only K - 12 public school located in Manhattan. NEST + m collaborated with Cafeteria Culture to jump start its recycling program with the K-5 students as leaders. The strength of this program is that it teaches the whys and hows of recycling and that the K-5 students are very enthusiastic participants."
(read more here ->)
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"SORT2save cheer!" - our latest music video for teaching K-6 students how to recycle and compost in the cafeteria

11/3/2015

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Drum roll please. The first SORT2save how-to video is here! Create a culture of zero waste in your cafeteria while making change fun - for everyone!

The SORT2save cheer! is a fun and easy way to teach students and staff how to correctly sort food scraps and packaging for a zero waste, healthy future.  Teachers, share with your students. Students, share with your teachers. Share it with everyone!

NEXT UP in the SORT2save (S2s) series:
CAFETERIA RANGERS - YOUR SCHOOL CAN DO IT!

SIGN UP HERE to receive a downloadable PDF of the SORT2save cheer!  lyrics and be the first to know when the next video in the S2s series is posted. 

At school? Watch the SORT2save cheer!  video on Vimeo here ->.
Watch the SORT2save cheer! video on YouTube here ->.
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