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 Senator Chris Van Hollen Lloyd Doggett
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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

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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
Urban School Food Alliance

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 !

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#PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic

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

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

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

Thank you @pas55SI for educating your school community on the harms of single-use plastic! One #PlasticFreeLunch Day leads to another!

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.'

Happy Plastic Free Lunch Day!

Fun Fact: this initiative started in 2021 at PS 15 in Brooklyn in partnership with Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) and students.

Now, it's a National movement.

Check out today’s 4th grade lunch period!

#plasticfreelunch
#zerowasteschools
#cafeteriaclimateaction

Plastic Free Lunch Day is November 8th. 🍎🍴

Cafeteria Culture (CafCu)

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.

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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.
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It’s never too late to take
#plasticfreelunch action!

Last year, the Urban School Food Alliance partnered with Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) in hosting the first ever #PlasticFreeLunch Day. Tomorrow, schools + students join forces again for the third PFLD in the growing movement to ditch single-use plastics. Share your plan: plasticfreelunch.org

BREAKING: The #BreakFreeFromPlastic Pollution Act of 2023 has been reintroduced in the U.S. Congress with even stronger language, improved tools, and more #environmentaljustice protections! 💪 This is the most comprehensive U.S. federal legislation on the plastics crisis (🧵)

We call on U.S. EPA to ban toxic vinyl chloride, starting by including this known carcinogen in its list of priority chemicals to review this fall. ❌No more #EastPalestine disasters. U.S. EPAMichaelRegan Brenda Mallory President Biden J.D. Vance Sherrod Brown Senator Vance Press Office Judith Enck…