schoolcafeteriacomposting | We Future Cycle

We Future Cycle has brought recycling stations to many many schools. The basic idea is that most of the materials that the kids touch during lunch are not trash if they were just put into the correct bin.

Sorting their lunch waste into Compost, Recycling and Trash reduces garbage by a whopping 95% simply through diversion of the materials into reusable streams.

60% of the lunchroom waste is compostable, a combination of compostable trays and food scraps. 25% is excess liquid, 10% is recycling with materials generating revenue for Westchester County and only 5% is non-compostable, non recyclable materials that are then treated as trash and incinerated into our air.

Teaching students to sort is not that difficult, the key is consistency and adult support and buy-in. And the true sign of success is when you see students carefully sort their materials and then carefully set their trays in a neat pile.

That is LIVING the details to be green. Way to go!

How does one change the world? Easy, by changing the minds of people. And how does one change the mind of someone? By showing them that small personal actions can have a huge positive ripple effect through the community.

WeFutureCycle’s mission statement is “Creating a generation of kids who care” and we believe that if we teach students in schools that their small actions matter, we can change the world, one school at a time.

Every day participating students are sorting their waste carefully into recycling, compost and trash, thus diverting 90+% out of the garbage stream.

Think about that….90+% of a problem solved by a quick hand movement.

And the ripple effect through the community is that these kids bring these behavioral changes home and are starting to change the world, one household at a time.