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Evening Street Elementary Zero-Waste Pilot

On Earth Day 2013 (April 22) Evening Street elementary students, with the support of school principal, Mary Rykowski, embarked on a zero waste cafeteria. 

The first week brought long lines as students learned how to sort thier lunch waste into three bins: compost, recycling, landfill, and stack their one-use, polystyrene, trays (Styrofoam)
 at the end of the line.

Evening Street Elementary School's cafeteria waste went from an average of 7 bags of landfill each day to 1.5 equaling an 80% reduction in waste to landfill!

By the end of the 6 weeks, students had fully caught on and diverted a whopping 2,950 pounds from going to landfill!


Cafeteria Program Q&A

Regularly updated statistics for Evening Street Elementary
Food Scrap Collection Statistics
Week
4/22/13 - 4/26/13


4/29/13-5/3/13

5/6/13- 5/10/13

5/13/13-5/17/13

5/20/13-5/24/13

5/27/13-5/31/13


TOTAL



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lbs. diverted from Landfill
675

650

450

425

600

150

2,950
75% reduction in waste to landfill

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