 The CafCu team and friends gathered April 19th to accept the EPA Region 2 Environmental Quality Award.
Dear Friends, WE HAVE SO MUCH GREAT NEWS! - NYC School Food and 5 of the largest US school districts announced a new school food alliance to co-purchase higher quality trays and food while driving down cost. This 6-city purchasing power will eliminate 2.9 million plastic foam trays used per day, replacing them with biodegradable ware! - Mayor Bloomberg has proposed a citywide ban on all plastic foam to-go containers and cups in NYC! - And, just in time for Earth Day, Cafeteria Culture will receive a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Quality Award!!  We are thrilled to be recognized by the EPA for contributing significantly to improve the environment. We thank everyone who has helped us to achieve this amazing success. After four years of catalyzing innovative pilots, educating school communities, creating cutting edge media, taking giant puppets to the streets, and plain ol’ persistence,we are closer than ever to completely eliminating toxic and polluting plastic foam food containers from our schools, our incinerators, and our lives!  ARTS+ACTION Cafeteria Waste Reduction At PS 20 in Manhattan's Lower East Side, we trained student Cafeteria Rangers, who reduced their cafeteria garbage bags from 14 to 4 on the very first day! Stay tuned for our multi-media Toolkit. We are working very hard, so we can share our successful program with all schools ASAP. With sincere gratitude,
The CafCu Team Debby Lee, Atsuko, Diana, Brianna, and Josh Great news! EPA, Region 2 has selected Cafeteria Culture as one of their Environmental Quality Award winners for 2013. We are sincerely grateful for the honor. Each year, EPA recognizes those who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to Excerpt from award announcement letter.
You can learn more about EPA Region 2 and the Environmental Quality Award at EPA.gov |
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Our VISION
We envision a plastic free, equitable zero waste future where landfill and incinerator garbage as we know it no longer exists;
where post consumption waste from food to packaging is drastically reduced
and what remains benefits our schools, communities, and the environment.
Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) is a Project of The Fund for the City of New York, a 501(c)(3) organization.
As such, your donations to Cafeteria Culture are eligible for charitable deductions under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Cafeteria Culture is a vendor of New York City Department of Education via Fund for the City of New York
Copyright © 2023 Cafeteria Culture