“You have 31.8 million children in the school lunch program each day, and multiply that by 180 school days and that comes out to quite a bit of trays if they’re all disposable,” Undurraga sai ...

That's why the fifth-grader was so stunned when he started thinking about the hundreds of thousands of disposable polystyrene trays that Houston students eat breakfast and lunch on every day.

40 other schools continue to serve breakfast and lunch on plastic foam plates and trays with disposable plastic silverware. School district officials explain that, at most of those schools ...

The remaining food on the tray was dumped into a compost bin ... And Meyer’s organization has partnered with other groups, like Rethink Disposable and the Center for Environmental Health ...

The commercial viability of these products "[paves] the way for eco-friendly products like food trays and disposable cutlery," Plastics Technology wrote. Do you think we use too much plastic in ...

are saying no to a plan which would allow one of its elementary schools to replace disposable Styrofoam lunch trays with reusable trays. This week, a student activist group met with county ...