Cafeteria Culture (CafCu) works creatively with youth to achieve equitable zero waste, climate-smart school communities and a plastic free biosphere.
Our youth programs merge citizen science and civic action with media production and the arts. Students in our programs, overwhelmingly from lower income communities of color, provide an urgently needed voice to the climate movement by taking on leadership roles and bridging the interconnected issues of zero waste, environmental justice and the climate crisis. Our award winning documentary, MICROPLASTIC MADNESS (2019), screened in 37 countries, is sparking youth-led action for a plastic free future.
Founded in 2009 as Styrofoam out of Schools, CafCu catalyzed the complete elimination of polystyrene (styrofoam) trays from NYC schools and 10 other large US school districts, resulting in the elimination of 1/2 a BILLION styrofoam trays per year from landfills, incinerators, and student meals across the US. www.cafeteriaculture.org/