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TALKING WASTE TRANSFER - Youth Impact Media

3/16/2015

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Waste Transfer Stations
Are you aware that everything you "throw away" will be negatively impacting some community along the journey to a waste transfer station, landfill or incinerator?
Most NYC residents never think about this, unless, of course, garbage is being dumped in one's own "backyard."  So why should you care? 
Watch this short video, created by 8th graders in our program, and find out!

There is not a single NYC community that wants hundreds of garbage filled, carbon spewing trucks driving through it's streets.  NYC is close to spending $1 BILLION on improving NYC garbage transfer yet, we spend only a tiny fraction of that amount on  innovating REDUCE EDUCATION! (more ->)
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"SORTIN' IT OUT" - the music video ( a work in progress)

8/29/2014

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Sortin’ It Out - the music video (a work in progress) from Atsuko Quirk on Vimeo.

Please DONATE here to help us complete this video and more like it!
Jack Johnson's charity will double your donation! (thru September 1st- details here)

Now is  the perfect time for creating innovative strategies to engage NYC youth on the "why" and "how" of sorting recyclables and compostables - and the public school cafeteria is an ideal place to start! With NYC's recent expansion of recycling and composting, students and staff urgently need fresh and engaging tools to reduce school trash. Why not make change fun?

Watch our new music video, "Sortin' It Out"  (a work in progress), co-created with the fabulous students and staff from MS 246 Walt Whitman in Brooklyn. 

We need your help to complete "Sortin' It Out" and more edu-taining videos, all to be included in our multi-media Toolkit for School Cafeteria Waste Reduction.

Please make your tax-deductible DONATION now.  Together, we can inspire school communities to reduce, recycle, and compost for a zero-waste, healthy future.



WHY NOW?
This fall, NYC will be expanding the organics (aka compost) collection to include 700 or, roughly 40% of all NYC schools, across 3 boroughs! read more

THE CHALLENGE
It is particularly challenging for principals to allocate limited staff time towards initiating and maintaining new cafeteria procedure. Contaminated bins are all too common. Students and staff need inspiration!

SCHOOLS NEED TOOLS!
Our school programs empower students as leaders in the cafeteria, who oversee all recylcing, composting and proper sorting. "Sortin' It Out" - the music video is just the lead-in! We are close to completing more great videos, as part of our on-line TOOLKIT.

COST of our THROW AWAY CULTURE
NYC taxpayers spend $330 million per year to export garbage in gas sucking, carbon spewing trucks, that crisscross the city, first to waste transfer stations located primarily in low-income minority neighborhoods, then to out of state landfills and incinerators.

CLIMATE CONNECTION
The entire trash cycle contributes carbon and methane emissions to global warming. 
While the city is due to spend millions on constructing new waste transfer stations, only a small fraction of NYC tax dollars are spent on recycling and climate education.

CLIMATE LITERACY
Cafeteria Culture has been piloting cutting edge, interdisciplinary curriculum via our school programs. We believe that all NYC students, regardless of resources, should be climate literate!
CafCu's Edu-tainment media - made with and for NYC youth - can revolutionize the city's recycling and composting communication, while empowering minority youth as partners in creating climate-smart messaging.

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Recording vocals - MS 246 students and Atsuko Quirk, CafCu Media Director.
CO-CREATING WITH YOUTH!
Youth drive trends, fearlessly pushing the limits of e-culture. CafCu's school programs are giving positive notice to youth as trend setters in a sustainability context and NYC is benefiting! 

WHY CAFETERIA CULTURE?
Our team collaboratively catalyzed Trayless Tuesday citywide and  more recently, new policies that will imminently rid all of NYC schools, along with the 5  largest US school districts, of 3 MILLION toxic and polluting styrene foam trays per day!

We have spent thousands of hours in school cafeterias across the city, collaboratively innovating, teaching, observing, and piloting new methods. We are the NYC school cafeteria waste reduction innovators!

CafCu gratefully acknowledges the generous support from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 for funding our ARTS+ACTION program at MS 246 Walt Whitman. Learn more about our innovative, interdisciplinary school programshere.
See the US EPA's Student's Guide to Global Climate Change here.
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Founded in 2009 as Styrofoam Out of Schools.
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