FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2020 Every Tray Counts is pleased to announce that Stacy Ahua has been named the organization’s next executive director, succeeding current executive director and founder Sue Scope. Stacy has started in her new role as of December 1....

By composting, either at home or with a composting service, and by reducing packaging, you can limit the amount of waste going to the landfill. Try limiting single use items and individual portion snack containers. Start small; every waste reduction is important! See...

On March 9, Every Tray Counts participated in the Wake Green Schools Partnership Kick Off Event for Teachers. At the event, community organizations and schools had the opportunity to engage with each other around ways to increase environmental literacy and creative...

Since our first audit, ETC’s been able to show lunchroom audit results that are consistent and revealing. The data collected proves that most of the waste generated in public school lunchrooms consists of compostable materials that could be diverted away from our...

In the summer of 2017 Sue Scope, executive director of Every Tray Counts (ETC), met with Sherry Schliesser and Barb Fair, the principal and assistant principal respectively, to discuss the benefits of our full pilot program at Kingswood Elementary in Cary, NC. Our...

“Has the world reached peak plastic? Nearly 13 million tons of plastic are dumped in the ocean each year. It is estimated that at this current pace there could be more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050. Single use plastics are commonly and increasingly being...

At Earth Day 2014, ETC and Food FWD were invited by Don’t Waste Durham to share their booth. Bryant Holsenbeck (an environmental artist) graciously created this polystyrene snake for our booth. Since the start of Every Tray Counts in 2014, Noah and Sarah Marsh of Food...

Scientists are looking for - and finding - little bits of plastic in a lot of places lately: ice cores, deep sea sediments, coral reefs, crab gills, the digestive system of mussels, even German beer....

Good morning! See this latest article on NPR about the Urban School Food Alliance! This movement away from polystyrene trays is gaining traction! http://www.npr.org/…/schools-say-ciao-to-plastic-lunch-tray

The six school districts that make up the Urban School Food Alliance are using their collective purchasing power to replace the traditional plastic spork in school cafeterias with knives, forks and spoons made of compostable materials....