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Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) @CafeteriaCu

Working creatively w/youth for zero waste, climate smart schools & a plastic free biosphere; w/citizen science, civic action, media #MicroplasticMadness movie

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Cafeteria Culture (CafCu)@CafeteriaCu
28 Feb 2024
K-12 schools- kickstart your #PlasticFreeLunch Day action with a FREE screening of MICROPLASTIC MADNESS 📽️Show the movie in your class/school. Free school viewing through April 30! @urbanschoolfood #k12schools #youth4climate #plasticpollution ▶️forms.gle/y975c67TCEwe49EL9
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⏳ Today is the last day to vote! Vote now and support Cafeteria Culture’s $75K project to bring equitable environmental justice education to PS/MS 34. 🔗 Register & vote today: bit.ly/FIC-NY 💚 Every vote matters! #Flourish #NYC #Environment
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🚨 We’re nominated for a $75K grant! Your vote can help us provide impactful environmental justice & composting education at PS/MS 34 on the Lower East Side! 🗳️ Register & vote (UNTIL 1/10): bit.ly/FIC-NY 💡 Vote for # 788! #Flourish #NYC
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Our Exec Dir Debby Lee Cohen passed this month, but her passion continues thru the students leading Plastic Free Lunch all week across the US!! We honor DL today & every day by centering our students advocating 4 environmental justice & possibility. MORE: bit.ly/DebbyLee
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Time to ban styrofoam nationwide! Founded in 2009 as Styrofoam Out of Schools, we have been advocating for this. 11 states, D.C. & cities across US are already there. TY @ChrisVanHollen @RepLloydDoggett usa.oceana.org/press-release… No Styrofoam Tray Puppets youtu.be/SfrOln0FtDc?si=G53_…

Congress Introduces Bill to Ban Plastic Foam

Explore Oceana news and press releases to get the latest ocean news.

usa.oceana.org
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🗓️Wed, April 3 is the next NYC School #plasticfreelunch day! K-12 teachers, get ready with a free screening of our award winning movie MICROPLASTIC MADNESS. 📢National Plastic Free Lunch Day - April 17-24 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Join schools for Plastic Free Lunch Day! ➡️ April 17-24, 2024 Reduce plastic in your school cafeteria for one day, a week, and every day. Started by students! Free resources: plasticfreelunch.org #plasticfree @urbanschoolfood
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Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) retweeted
Plastic Pollutes
@PlasticPollutes
2 Mar 2024
We don't have to accept plastic pollution. Take action & let your voice be heard. 🗣️ Sign the petition urging the United States to take a stronger stance on the Global #PlasticsTreaty! ✍🏼 bit.ly/plasticstreaty-rl 📸 by doctorphotograph #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic
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Thank you @HarveyforNY for speaking w/PS188M students re NYS Packaging Recycling Infrastructure Act. They ask NYS Assembly to pass a bill that makes plastic producers: 💲pay for their waste, 🌏 make less plastic, 🚫 redesign for reusables! @NYSA_Majority #breakfreefromplastic
New York State Assembly Member, Harvey, Epstein, signs autographs on file cards for four 6th grade boys in a classroom, standing in front of a SmartBoard. The students are wearing their PS 188 the Island School uniform shirts.

ALT New York State Assembly Member, Harvey, Epstein, signs autographs on file cards for four 6th grade boys in a classroom, standing in front of a SmartBoard. The students are wearing their PS 188 the Island School uniform shirts.

New York State Assembly Member, Harvey, Epstein, stands in front of a SmartBoard in a classroom, speaking to a students seated in chairs, listening to him speak.

ALT New York State Assembly Member, Harvey, Epstein, stands in front of a SmartBoard in a classroom, speaking to a students seated in chairs, listening to him speak.

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These 6th graders from our program have been studying about local and global #plasticpollution since 4th grade. Last year, they partnered w/students from the southernmost part of Japan, Iriomote, sharing concerns &solutions, thanks to @JF_NewYork!
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Reduce #PlasticWaste in your school cafeteria with a simple student-led #WasteAudit. NYC PS34M #5thgraders collected data to share w kitchen staff & accelerate change! Movies, lessons, & more: plasticfreelunch.org #plasticfreelunch  #breakfreefromplastic #youth4climate
Four 5th grade students from Cafeteria Culture partner school, PS/MS 34 FDR in Lower Manhattan, sit together behind a blue tarp on the floor with the single-use plastic from one lunch period, sorted into labeled cardboard trays. Labeled cardboard boxes next to the tarp were used for cafeteria sorting.

ALT Four 5th grade students from Cafeteria Culture partner school, PS/MS 34 FDR in Lower Manhattan, sit together behind a blue tarp on the floor with the single-use plastic from one lunch period, sorted into labeled cardboard trays. Labeled cardboard boxes next to the tarp were used for cafeteria sorting.
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Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) retweeted
Center for International Environmental Law@ciel_tweets
16 Nov 2023
ICYMI 🔥☠️ Houston, TX experienced two toxic fires last week, causing evacuations or shelter-in-place. The common factor? #Plastic: a petrochemical facility upstream & a recycling facility downstream. The #plastic supply chain is dangerous at every step. bit.ly/3sz7e5x
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Center for International Environmental Law@ciel_tweets
16 Nov 2023
NY sues @PepsiCo for #plastic harm. While corporate polluters profit, everyday people pay the price with polluted air, water & health risks. The public has foot the bill for too long. May this be the first of many more cases to hold polluters accountable. bit.ly/3sLT80x

A river is clogged with plastic bags and bottles. Officials blame Pepsi.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is accusing the snack and soda giant of polluting the Buffalo River with plastic from its products.

washingtonpost.com
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Thank you @pas55SI for educating your school community on the harms of single-use plastic! One #PlasticFreeLunch Day leads to another!
PS55@PS55SI
7 Nov 2023
CAST Climate Action Sustainability Team getting ready for Plastic Free Lunch Day on November 8th. Educating our community on the harmful effects of not re cycling plastic properly. #PS55ShiningWithPride
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Make every school day #plasticfree. Ask your #schoolfood mgr for 3 cost saving changes: 1replace single-use condiment packets w bulk service of sauces/dressings 2wrap sandwiches in bulk (put in serving trays w aluminum foil cover) 3offer plastic utensils "by request only."
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Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) retweeted
NYC Public Schools
@NYCSchools
8 Nov 2023
Happy Plastic Free Lunch Day! Fun Fact: this initiative started in 2021 at PS 15 in Brooklyn in partnership with @CafeteriaCu and students. Now, it's a National movement. Check out today’s 4th grade lunch period! #plasticfreelunch #zerowasteschools #cafeteriaclimateaction
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Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) retweeted
Trash Free Maryland@TrashFreeMD
6 Nov 2023
Plastic Free Lunch Day is November 8th. 🍎🍴 @CafeteriaCu Why should you get involved?  👉School cafeterias serve over 7️⃣ billion meals per year 👉 School meals are loaded with single-use plastics 👉We are all eating and breathing plastic. cafeteriaculture.org/plastic…
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It’s Plastic Free Lunch Day! Students and school nutrition professionals join forces again for the 3rd national Plastic Free Lunch Day, a growing movement to ditch single-use plastics. plasticfreelunch.org It’s never too late to take #plasticfreelunch action!
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