 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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 Cafeteria Culture Executive Director, Debby Lee Cohen (left photo, in center) and Media Director, Atsuko Quirk (bottom photo, waving) were honored to present at the United Nations Headquarters in NYC on Wednesday, June 15th as part of the 17th Meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP-17) - Marine Debris, Plastics and Microplastics. Our presentation was titled: Partnering with urban youth on upstream solutions, civic action, media and messaging to reduce plastic marine debris and microplastics.  We were thrilled to be able to share our plastic pollution reduction efforts with the distinguished UN delegates from all over the world - accomplishments made possible by our partnerships with incredible NYC public school students, teachers, school communities, and government agencies that we have worked with on reducing plastic litter in NYC!
Brooklyn 8th grade students have been working hard behind the scenes on The Journey of Plastic Litter. They studied the issues, storyboarded their concepts, created artwork for animation, and did a fabulous job editing with charming sound effects! As part of Cafeteria Culture's Youth Arts + Media for Trash Free Waters Program at MS246 Walt Whitman, in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, students from class 804 created a series of short documentary videos on the local and global issues of plastic marine pollution. Watch the Journey of Plastic Litter, the first in the series, and subscribe to our YouTube Channel, CafCu Media! We will be posting new #TrashFreeWaters videos all month long. These shorts with their fresh youth-POV are not to be missed! Get inspired then, take action for #TrashFreeWaters. Action Alert on the NYC #BYObag bill here-> Thank you for watching and sharing! Cafeteria Culture's YOUTH ARTS + MEDIA for TRASH FREE WATERS School Program (2016) has been generously funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2, Sustainable Materials Management Section, CASD. Cafeteria Culture is most appreciative of additional support via our UL Innovative Education Award (2015) and The Fund for the City of New York. |
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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