TAKE ACTION
to STOP
PLASTIC POLLUTION
and for
equitable zero waste!
-- actions for school, home, & community--
Cafeteria Culture is dedicated to supporting youth
as leaders in their schools & communities
to stop plastic pollution, reduce food and food packaging waste,
provide composting for all communities,
and to ensure quality climate education for K-12 students.
YOU CAN HELP!!
Scroll down for school, home,
local, and national action!
THE WORLD IS AWASH IN PLASTIC POLLUTION
TAKE ACTION!
as leaders in their schools & communities
to stop plastic pollution, reduce food and food packaging waste,
provide composting for all communities,
and to ensure quality climate education for K-12 students.
YOU CAN HELP!!
Scroll down for school, home,
local, and national action!
THE WORLD IS AWASH IN PLASTIC POLLUTION
TAKE ACTION!
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START AT SCHOOL
Sign the student petition:
Plastic Free Lunch Day every day! |
START AT HOME
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FIND YOUR NYC COUNCIL MEMBER-->
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Getting push-back from decision makers about the switch
to reusables and refillable systems?
See our new
Resource Library
to reusables and refillable systems?
See our new
Resource Library
NYC COMPOST UPDATE!
Citywide Curbside Organic Collection bill
Find your NYC COUNCIL MEMBER-->
Hold the date: Aug. 17, 10 AM
NY City Hall Rally for Zero Waste!
Citywide Curbside Organic Collection bill
Find your NYC COUNCIL MEMBER-->
Hold the date: Aug. 17, 10 AM
NY City Hall Rally for Zero Waste!
U.S. PLASTIC-FREE POLICY ACTION!
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Sign the petition to
Reduce PLASTIC Waste in National Parks Act Join 77,000 citizens who already petitioned The Department of Interior to end the sale & distribution of single-use plastics in National Parks add your name -> And call/write your U.S. Representative and Senators Urge them to sponsor the Reducing Waste in National Parks Act (S.2960/H.R.5533)! |
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Support the
Break Free From
Plastic Pollution Act
EASY ACTION:
Send a letter to your
Member of Congress and US Senators ->
Break Free From
Plastic Pollution Act
EASY ACTION:
Send a letter to your
Member of Congress and US Senators ->
STUDENT ACTION!
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Students, lead a teach-in on the
Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act: 
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Youth Leaders and Teachers, sign up for free access for the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act Teach-in presentation -> A huge THANK YOU to all our
US Congressional Reps in NYC for supporting this groundbreaking bill! |
Ask your US Representatives to support the BREAK FREE FROM PLASTIC POLLUTION ACT - Shift responsibility for waste management & recycling to manufacturers and producers - Set up a US beverage container refund program - Establish minimum recycled content standards - Phase out single-use plastic products that aren’t recyclable - Prohibit plastic waste from being exported to developing countries Read more |
1- Tell Food Delivery Apps to Please Hold The Plastic
Please let SEAMLESS, DOORDASH, GRUBHUB, DELIVERY.COM, CAVIAR, AND POSTMATE know that most of the single-use items that come along with our to-go orders are not recyclable. These items add to our plastic pollution crisis! It is time for these companies to re-design their apps with a "NO single-use" as the default setting for all orders. Uber Eats has already done it.Orders should only have single-use items, such as plastic cutlery, straws and condiment packets if customers ask for it! |
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COMMUNITY ACTION
for all ages
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NYC VICTORY!!!
Thanks to all who helped get the Plastic Straw By Request Bill passed. Start your own Straw-By-Request campaign! We have tools! -> 
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MORE SCHOOL ACTIONS
EDUCATE
your students, teachers, staff and community
by hosting a screening of our award winning documentary,
MICROPLASTIC MADNESS!
Free screenings for all Title One schools!
Offering ongoing special free screening days for all schools
Sign up to host your own virtual screening here.
EDUCATE
your students, teachers, staff and community
by hosting a screening of our award winning documentary,
MICROPLASTIC MADNESS!
Free screenings for all Title One schools!
Offering ongoing special free screening days for all schools
Sign up to host your own virtual screening here.
PLASTIC FREE LUNCH DAY! Take climate action by reducing single-use plastics in your school cafeteria. Learn more -> Start by hosting a screening of MICROPLASTIC MADNESS |
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Students debate, ask questions, collect data, and take community action using their own powerful stories about how local plastic street litter becomes global toxic marine pollution, threatening our oceans and marine wildlife. Learn more -> Watch our student videos - |
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Host a school-wide screening and
join the PLASTIC FREE LUNCH campaign! 
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Start a student-leadership program in your school cafeteria
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NEW YORK ACTION
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NY State residents, your action is needed to reduce plastic packaging and plastic pollution.
It's time to shift the financial burden of managing packaging waste from taxpayers to the producers. NY Assemblymember Englebright's and NY State Senator May's Extended Producer Responsibility and Bigger Better Bottle bills reduce packaging, reduce toxics, prohibit plastic burning from counting as recycling, and do not hand over the decision-making power to the very polluters that created the problem in the first place. Let's get the NY Extended Producer Responsibility Bill (Assembly bill A10185 - Senate Bill S9493) and Bigger Better Bottle Bill (Assembly bill A10184 - Senate S9164) passed! Here's how you can help:
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Ask your NYS Senator and Assembly Member to co-sponsor the tobacco product waste reduction act NY Senate Bill S1278 stop the sale of polluting cigarettes with single-use filters and single-use electronic cigarettes Passing this bill will reduce toxic plastic pollution |
SKIP THE STUFF |
New York City Action Alert
#SaveOurCompost NYC 82% of NYC’s waste is incinerated or exported to landfills and much of our waste is coming from our kitchens! TAKE ACTION 
Compost drop off site at Union Square run by Lower Eastside Ecology Center
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NEW YORK
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Listen to youth!
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