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Making Zero the Hero: Bringing Everyone to the Table (for lunch)

Making Zero the Hero: Bringing Everyone to the Table (for lunch). Presented by: Lois Humphreys, TRG & Associates CRRA Annual Conference August 6, 2012. CCCSWA’s Wastebusters School Program. Worked with nearly 50 public/private schools K-12 Six different school districts

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Making Zero the Hero: Bringing Everyone to the Table (for lunch)

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  1. Making Zero the Hero:Bringing Everyone to the Table(for lunch) Presented by: Lois Humphreys, TRG & Associates CRRA Annual Conference August 6, 2012

  2. CCCSWA’s Wastebusters School Program • Worked with nearly 50 public/private schools K-12 • Six different school districts • Getting to zero is an evolution that varies among districts • Cornerstone is Wastebusters Certification • Incorporated trash costs as motivation • Students monitoring/assistance essential

  3. Project Overview & Getting Everyone on Board • Wastebusters certification program provides financial rewards for schools • Zero waste concept introduced last year • Started food waste collection pilot with one elementary school in 2009 – now six involved • Zero waste works in numerous ways

  4. Zero Waste At Lunch Time is Multi-Faceted • Food Waste Collection Program • Waste-free home made lunches • Reducing packaging with purchased lunches • Developing an effective recycling program • Assisting with composting and gardens • Improving lunchtime nutrition

  5. Involving Everyone in the Process • Custodians • Teachers • Parents & volunteers • Student green teams • Principals • School lunch caterers

  6. The Challenges • Getting everyone involved • When kids get unappetizing food, it ends up in the trash • Kids want recess more than food • Packaging from home and hot lunch contributes to the problem • Convincing the right people that waste is expensive

  7. A Very Big Challenge • Food Services purchases the least expensive lunch tray (styrofoam) • Facilities and maintenance have to dispose of the tray which is bulky and fills up a dumpster quickly • Trash costs increase every year • Requires awareness at the Superintendent level to make changes

  8. Look at what’s in the trash

  9. The Kid’s Guide to Lunch in 15 Minutes • Get your lunch as quickly as possible • Sit with friends and socialize • Take small bites of lunch • Throw away apple or sandwich • Try to recycle • Get to the playground as fast as possible • It’s noisy, crowded, rushed

  10. The Responsibility for Getting to Zero • Parents: Top Tips for a Waste Free Lunch & resources for waste free lunch products • District/Facilities/Food Services/Parents/Administrators/Custodians: Educating everyone about the costs of trash • Teachers/parents: Organizing a dynamo team of kids • Kids: Your primary resource!

  11. More Tools for Getting to Zero • Conducting waste audits • Lunchtime presentations • Institutionalize the entire process • Maintaining an efficient collection system & signage • Find a Hero! • Do it all over again the next year

  12. Maintaining the System • Kids forget without constant monitoring • Green team check for contamination and empty into bigger containers • Food averages 300 lbs per week adiversion alone

  13. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Use red baskets instead of Styrofoam

  14. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Feed food waste to chickens or a pig named Fiona

  15. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Grow organic produce for lunchtime salad bar

  16. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Have fundraisers and sell reusable lunch boxes and water bottles

  17. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Ban water bottles and construct a hydration station

  18. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Work with caterers to get rid of wasteful packaging • Replace with reusable trays and large containers for condiments

  19. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Change recess to before lunchtime

  20. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Create a Super Hero and convince a teacher to wear a costume

  21. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Send zero waste messages via email and newsletters to parents about packing a lunch – reusable lunch boxes and containers

  22. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Create recycling stations and use Green Team monitors

  23. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Get Scouts involved – they manage several recycling/zero waste projects at schools

  24. Great Ideas from the Heroes • Measure trash, recycling & food waste & implement school-wide awareness campaign • Survey kids and find out why they don’t eat their lunch

  25. Questions?Contact Lois Humphreys(925) 778-8803

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