RI SCHOOL RECYCLING PROJECT
Let’s Get Food Smart, RI.
Waste Less
Recover, Share & Donate
Compost
A lot of food gets wasted in Rhode Island’s schools.
We hate to start off with numbers like this, but here goes.
We estimate that…
Pounds of food get wasted on a regular school day.
Pounds of it will be perfectly good, unopened food that could be donated to hungry families, every day!
Want to know what we throw away in a single school year?
Pounds of food, and…
Pounds of it could go to hungry kids and their families!
And that’s a problem,
not only because of the wasted water and energy used to produce and transport food,
but also because…
One in three RI households is food insecure, which means they are often unsure where their next meal will come from due to lack of resources.
Most of the food waste from RI schools gets dumped into the state’s only landfill in Johnston. That’s bad for the environment and it produces methane gas which contributes to global warming. (Methane is a greenhouse gas, many times more powerful than carbon dioxide)
Here’s some good news.
We have the power to change it –
and you’ve come to the right place to learn how
SCHOOL FOOD WASTE ESTIMATOR
How much food does your school waste?
We have developed metrics to estimate the amount of food waste your school produces.
Estimate Your School's Waste
Take the Challenge!
The RI Schools Recycling Project is challenging your school to Get Food Smart!
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RI Recycling club is helping our school be food smart!
With their help we’ve been able to divert over 5 tons of waste!
-North Providence PTA Member
The kids are totally into seeing how their choices are reducing the waste that our school produces each week!
We love it!
-Birchwood Elementary
What an amazing program!
-Ty C.
See how we’re impacting schools across RI!
We’re focusing on food waste in RI schools – and how to reduce, recover and recycle it.