Yesterday, our Launch Day of our Cafeteria Ranger Program at The Children’s School was truly amazing!
We had only one bag of garbage, weighing only 5 pounds on our first day of our student leadership cafeteria program!
Congratulations and a huge thank you to the entire school community!
BEFORE
Our garbage weighed 20.76 pounds from breakfast and all lunch periods on one day.
Before student leadership in the cafeteria, there was lots of contamination*
*Recycling and compost that went to the landfill because it was placed in the wrong bin.
Before the Cafeteria Ranger Program:
Recycling contamination was 25
Trash contamination was 80%
Organics contamination was 8%
AFTER
(photos and data from Launch Day, October 11, 2017)
One bag of garbage, weighing 5.1 pounds from breakfast and all lunch periods on one day!
ACCOMPLISHMENT
Our garbage is now only 5 pounds AND we have reduced contamination:
Recycling contamination is now 0%
Trash contamination is now 0%
Organics contamination is now 0%
Students diverted a total of 73 pounds from going to a landfill!
ALL this, with student Rangers as the leaders!
Please share this vimeo link to SORT2save Cheer!, a 6-minute sing-along video and and Cafeteria Ranger Crash Course that teachers can use to review sorting rules and Ranger duties with students: