Luis Pozo’s lunch tray was the size of a notebook, a thin cardboard rectangle he used to carry his noon meal through the cafeteria of Francis Scott Key Middle School in Silver Spring. The eighth ...

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

Recently, the district has started to use reusable lunch trays. Initially, West Valley started using the new trays because the schools were unable to purchase other trays due to pandemic shortages.

Environmentally minded students want Styrofoam trays out of cafeterias, but schools say tight budgets and infrastructure limitations often present insurmountable hurdles.

The used lunch trays Emily Fox took home about four years ago from the loading dock outside her elementary school were gross, some still plastered with ketchup. ¶ Emily stacked the trays in piles ...

HISD, the state's largest school system, is taking bids to replace the nearly 40 million foam trays used each year with an environmentally friendlier alternative.

Students in MCCSC high schools are eating their lunches from trays with images of Cougars and Panthers these days, but it isn’t the mascots that learners are excited about. The purple and ...

A Service High School student carries a lunch tray on Oct. 2, 2019. Service is one of the Anchorage School District schools that are using reusable trays instead of prepackaged disposable ones.

GREENWICH — On the bumpy road toward instituting reusable trays in the cafeterias of Greenwich Public Schools, environmentalists and town officials are having trouble figuring out where to ...

Adults explain that money, old plumbing and other barriers mean Portland schools can't all switch to environmentally superior reusable trays this year. But students sound the alarm over waste ...

Reusable plastic trays, she said, would require significant money for dishwashers and personnel. On the lunch money front, DeYoung asked what happens when a student has no lunch or lunch money.

It's the reusable plastic trays. As part of a Portland Public Schools pilot program, Glencoe eliminated disposable polystyrene lunch trays this month.