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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.
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.
While we may still be enjoying the longer days of summer, before we know it, children will be back at their desks and moms and dads will be packing lunch boxes. In 2010, the federal government ...
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Back in the Paleozoic Era, when we were kids, nobody wore seat belts or bike helmets. To do our homework, we used quaint technologies: "card catalogs," "encyclopedias" and "Wite-Out." To chat with ...
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.