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Cafeteria Organics Collection
NYC School Program
For Elementary Grades
Ways We Take Care of the
Earth
Reduc
e
Recycle
ReUse
Composting:
Nature’s
Composting is
Nature’s Way of Recycling
Creates Healthy Soil
Helps Plants Grow
What is
Composting?
• When we break down organic, or once living
material, faster than it would in nature.
• Creates a chocolate colored dirt that gives
plants nutrients
• “Decomposers” in the soil like micro-organisms,
organisms, and worms break down organics.
They are nature’s recyclers.
NEW!!! Organics Collection
in the Cafeteria
What Happens to Collected Organics?
Organics are taken to local facilities
to make compost or to make energy
Newtown Creek Wastewater
Treatment Plant in Brooklyn
DSNY Commercial Composting Facility
Please Bring ALL Food Scraps,
Food Soiled Paper, Recycling, and
Trash
to the Sorting Station
Take your items off your tray one at a time.
Sort it Out. It’s Easy.
Pour
Any liquids
into bucket
Recycle
Remove
Cartons, cans,
bottles, & all
hard plastics
Landfill trash
Add
ALL food scraps
food soiled paper
Take food
OUT OF
Plastic
baggies
Plastic wrap
and
Tin Foil
BEFORE YOU PLACE IT
in the FOOD SCRAPS
BIN
Sorting in Four Easy Steps
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3:
Step 4:
Pour
Recycle
Add Organics
Liquids
into
Bucket
Cartons, Cans,
Bottles, Foil,
and Hard Plastics
Remove
Trash
Plastic Bags,
Film, Wrappers,
and Foam
Food Scraps
Fiber Trays
Paper Boats, Cups
Plates and Napkins
Remember to Recycle All Beverage
Cartons, Cans and Bottles
And aluminum foil
Recycle All Hard
Plastics
HINT: If you can
squeeze it into a ball,
it is NOT a hard
plastic
Remove Trash and put into Landfill
Bin
Add ALL Leftover Food Scraps
to the Organics Bin
Add All Food Soiled Paper
and Fiber Trays to the Organics Bin
Get in the Game
Recycling
and composting
at Yankee Stadium
decreased waste
by 40 percent.
What would
increase recycling
and composting
at this school?