Down with the plastic lunch tray! Industry reports suggest that ditching the cafeteria mainstay may be one of the best ways to reduce food waste. By Kevin Charles Redmon.

The polystyrene used in traditional lunch trays is a petroleum-based plastic that won't break down for hundreds of years. When the trays end up in landfills — and 225 million of them do every ...

A Rhode Island school is ditching plastic foam trays at lunchtime in favor of reusable stainless steel trays and sporks. It’s cut lunch waste 90 percent.

Four Portland students in third grade through seventh grade helped tote more than 1,000 used plastic foam lunch trays in front of the school board Monday night to make their case: ...

A Rhode Island school is ditching plastic foam trays at lunchtime in favor of reusable stainless steel trays and sporks. It’s cut lunch waste 90 percent. Accessibility statement Skip to main content ...

HISD Houston ISD fourth graders start petition for reusable lunch trays, taking change into their own hands. After learning about how their plastic foam lunch trays were not only harming the ...

In May 2019, parents and students at Speas Elementary started a pilot composting program during lunch service. Chartwells K12 covered the cost difference for compostable trays versus polystyrene tray.

TICHIGAN — One-use foam lunch trays will soon be a thing of the past at Washington School thanks to five environmentally conscious eighth-graders.

Atlanta, DeKalb and Gwinnett are among the school systems trying to make cafeterias more environmentally friendly by ditching plastic foam lunch trays ...

Six of the nation's largest school districts are ditching polystyrene lunch trays in favor of compostable plates. The hope is that they'll incentivize cities to build more composting facilities.