HOW CAN YOUR SCHOOL HELP SAVE THE PLANET? CHECK IT OUT!

Greetings to all:

Let's get rid of the Styrofoam trays in ALL the schools. Here is how Public School East Village Community, Children's Workshop and PS 94 did it.  Spread the word to everyone school you know. 
Thanks,
Helen Greenberg (East Village Mom)

 

 

Here are the steps we did to get rid of the Styrofoam.

1) Spoke to Stephen O'Brien our regional School/Food Director telling him we wanted Styrofoam trays gone.

2) Wrote letter to Executive Director David Berkowitz of School/foods a letter explaining why we want the trays gone.  Also talked about the health hazards of eating hot food on the plastic trays and families concerns.  I would stress that- no one wants to be sued.  (David Berkowitz is no longer there- so you have to find out who is in charge.)  Do you guys have a wellness committee where you meet monthly with your SchoolFood director and talk about your food>  You can have students come to discuss what they like and don't like.  Look on the web for Wellness Committee info. Every school should have one by law. If you don't just start one and call School Food to set up an appointment with your regional director. 

3) Our school shares the lunch room with three schools. So we had to have the go ahead from all three principals saying yes to this too. 

4) School Foods figures out how many trays you use a month and figures out the difference.  The pulp trays are double the price of Styrofoam.  Our monthly bill for all three schools is $360 to School Foods. We have about 500 students in all three schools.  We figured out the percentage what each school will be responsible for.  The schools figure out which PTA group will cut the monthly check.  Each school signed an agreement to each other saying we are committed to the amount for the year.  We made a year contract and will recalculate in the fall what our percentages are again.

5) APPCO Paper Supplier-  Richard is the contact. (516) 608-9200   He has been amazing! School Foods does all the ordering. It takes about a month - 6 weeks for the change over.  The trays are the SUNSHINE 5 made from sugarcane and water.  They can be thrown into the garbage and will compost in 60 -80 days depending on the circumstances.

6) I'm still working on the sanitation department if they will recycle them with the milk cartons. I have to send a tray with lunch food on it.  They want to see how the food sticks and stains the tray before they can recycle it...

7) In the meantime I have a composting service that will do a free week of pick up and tell us how much it will cost us to do that.  We have to teach the kids about tapping the trays clean and separating the plastic spoons too. 

8) Our school (East Village Community)  is funding this project through Pop Corn Fridays.  We sell organic popcorn with fun toppings -all organic no butter our sugar.  One dollar a bag. For now I've been using my popcorn maker.  A real pop corn machine is coming this week.  The machine costs $450 dollars and it uses a small amount of oil.  The machine was donated. I bought the machine through a former PTA Pres of Neighborhood school in NYC Kim (212) 614-0716.  I buy the popcorn bags at Great River Restaurant Supply Inc, 29 Allen Street, NYC  (212) 941-6688. They come in packages of 500 and the size is small.  They cost $6.75.  The popcorn is $1.29 a pound- I use about 6- 8lbs a week.

9)I have to say everyone at School Foods has been great to work with.  Stephen O'Brien has been so supportive!  Good Luck and spread the word to all the schools- Lets get Styrofoam out of the the schools!

10) This should be simple to do.  The blue print is in place!

Helen Greenberg (East Village mom)

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