Kingswood Elementary Waste Audit

The School Cafeteria Discards Assessment Project (SCRAP) highlighted the waste audit being performed at Kingwood Elementary in Cary, NC. Volunteers, Every Tray Counts, and others participated. Way to go! https://erefdn.org/school-cafeteria-waste/

Every Tray Counts is Growing!

Every Tray Counts is growing! We currently have 3 programs: Full Pilot, Adopt-A-School (new), and Toolkit (new and partially funded). First, Kingswood Elementary School in Cary, North Carolina. With a student population of 415 students, their enthusiasm seems twice as...

ETC Toolkit Announcement

We Need You! Help us develop the “toolkit” for NC schools! As you know, Every Tray Counts is dedicated to working with children, parents, communities, and interested participants within North Carolina School districts to engage in responsible purchasing and waste...

SCrAP Project

The School Cafeteria Discards Assessment Project (SCrAP), developed by the Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF), focuses on collecting waste quantities in school cafeterias and understanding how it is managed. Schools are able to sign up and...

Clif Bar “Toolkit” Funding

Every Tray Counts (ETC) has been awarded a grant from the Clif Bar Family Foundation to help fund the development of a school lunch education “toolkit.” We will engage with groups of NC stakeholders to put together this project, and through this grant we hope to make...

Durham Public Schools Updates

Two weeks ago, Every Tray Counts received an exciting email from several people that live in Durham and are involved with helping the public school lunch rooms go compostable! This is from an email sent to parents and others in Durham from the Executive...