TICHIGAN — One-use foam lunch trays will soon be a thing of the past at Washington School thanks to five environmentally conscious eighth-graders. Those students, troubled by how many foam trays ...

The West Valley School District is among the school districts trying to help our environment and get rid of those disposable trays. Recently, the district has started to use reusable lunch trays.

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 ...

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 of 10.

In the Washington region, Loudoun County Public Schools and D.C. Public Schools use compostable or reusable trays. The D.C. school system also has dishwashers for reusable, plastic trays in 12 ...

Among Portland's 85 schools, 28 have switched to using reusable sturdy plastic trays and real silverware and another 17 are in line to make that change in the coming months.

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.

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 ...

Ten-year-old Austin Fendley learned all about recycling and conservation at Lovett Elementary School this year. That's why the fifth-grader was so stunned when he started thinking about the ...

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 ...

MILFORD — The Board of Education Monday revisited the issue of school lunch trays — Styrofoam versus cardboard — and even talked about washable plastic trays, but Food Services Director ...

As part of a Portland Public Schools pilot program, Glencoe eliminated disposable polystyrene lunch trays this month. The district supplied nine schools with 2,280 new trays (with 2,280 more in ...