Creating A Plastic Free Culture!
Plastic Free Lunch Day in San Diego Unified School District 20 min Listen or Watch
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Most of our 200+ schools participated in the Plastic Free Lunch Day event on November 2nd. We turned our salad bars into “dipper bars” so no utensils were necessary. We also switched from salads served in clam shells to veggie burgers. The students seemed to enjoy a new variety of finger foods at the salad bars. Please enjoy the attached photos. We are hoping to have more plastic free lunch days in the future, possibly to celebrate Earth Week.
https://youtu.be/F8SxXcinAI8
In this episode of Next Up, your host, Marlon Gordon, meets with USFA member San Diego Unified School District. He chats with Melanie Moyer, Diego Robles, and Janelle Manzano about the success they saw in their districts 200 schools for Plastic Free Lunch Day. Listen in to learn what tips and tricks they used in their district to make this day as successful as it was.
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San Diego USD, CA
Thank you to all the schools that joined us this year!
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The Urban School Food Alliance, in collaboration with Cafeteria Culture and Cool School Cafe®, is encouraging districts to share Plastic Free Lunch Day stories!
Email Support@CoolSchoolCafe.com to share your impact for 250 Cool School Points (a few short sentences will be great)! Earn an additional 250 points for emailed photo(s)!* *Stories/photos must be submitted by December 16, 2022. Bonus points awarded for first 500 district submissions. One set of bonus points per district. Please allow 4-6 weeks for bonus point deposit.
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equitable experience for all stakeholders and equitable access to healthy school meals for all students. In pursuit of this, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce, board of directors and membership base and being intentional about including a diversity of voices in school food conversations.
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