THE VISION

Dumping our half-eaten food scraps and even untouched food items in the trash for landfill and incineration is standard practice because it's an easy system - easy for our governments to manage, for businesses and municipalities to operate, and for everyday consumers to be complicit in. It's this last group - us - who can stop making it so easy for those in power to let __ lbs of preventable, post-consumer food waste pollute our atmosphere, while __ in _ children faces food insecurity in America. We ask you to stop ignoring the pang of guilt or helplessness you may feel when you let go of that old or unwanted sandwich, and instead help us make noise about a way to simultaneously tackle three issues that intersect on school grounds: food waste, hunger, and inequitable K-12 educational opportunity.

In each of our schools, we launch a program consisting of food-share tables, composting bins, educational curricula, and advocacy campaigns - tangibly reducing emissions while bringing lasting culture change to schools and the communities they touch.