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Single-use foodware items, such as plastic and paper cups, plates, and utensils, have a short lifespan but a long-lasting negative impact on human health and the environment. Additionally, most of these single-use foodware items are neither readily recyclable nor compostable, and contaminate recycling and composting programs.
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Watch Rot Girl her and fellow action heroes use their power of composting to defeat the Trash-ster!
Starring students from Sequoia Elementary School in Oakland, CA
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Join the StopWaste Schools Team for our spring Open House at the StopWaste Education Center at the Davis Street Transfer Station in San Leandro. The Open House will feature tours of the garbage pit - the place where garbage goes before heading to the landfill - and activity booths and work sessions to spark your Earth month actions including:
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Despite the decreasing amount of food sent to the landfill, wasted food is still one of the largest components of the waste stream. In addition to harmful greenhouse gases released when food decomposes in a landfill, all the resources that went into producing that food are also wasted, depleting finite resources and further contributing to climate change.
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