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.

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 ...

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: Far too many ...

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

After learning about how their plastic foam lunch trays were not only harming the environment but also themselves, three students jumped into action and started gathering their classmates' signatures.

In the end, the cost of the trays is slightly higher than the plastic foam trays the school is using now, but still within their budget, and they are healthier for people as well as the ...

STAMFORD — First there was the bag ban, then the straw law. Provided there are no significant objections at Tuesday night’s public hearing, a plastic foam stoppage may soon be on the books ...

Plastic food packaging has become composters’ greatest challenge. People are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their bins, contaminating the compost.

Plastic waste litters cities, oceans and even the air. ... Plastic is just a form of fossil fuel. Your plastic water bottle, your grocery bag, your foam tray full of cucumbers ...

With an eye toward being Earth-friendly, Calf Pen Meadow School is forsaking plastic foam lunch trays and switching to a tray that can be readily recycled or reused: those made of bamboo or sugar ...

It was a yellow, plastic foam cafeteria tray from a Newport News school. And it was accompanied by a letter filled with food for thought.“The elementary school […] Skip to content ...