Waste-Free School Lunches
If you’re looking for some information about saving resources on lunch, (think packaging), then a visit to waste-free lunches is a must.
Waste-free lunches covers everything you need to know in order to pack an earth-friendly lunch for your kids. The waste-free lunch website notes that “It’s been estimated that on average a school-age child using a disposable lunch generates 67 pounds of waste per school year. That equates to 18,760 pounds of lunch waste for just one average-size elementary school.”
That’s a lot of waste. This site can help you beat the waste.
Ideas covered include:
- Cost of a waste-free lunch.
- Comparisons between a wasteful vs. not wasteful lunch.
- How to start a waste-free lunch program in your own school (although the tips are easily adapted to home lunches for homeschooled kids).
- Research on waste in school lunches.
- Stories about successes on the waste-free lunch front.
- And more.
Visit waste-free lunches and make this the year that your basic lunch efforts make a positive difference for the environment.
A waste-free lunch would be wonderful. I work at an elementary school during lunch time. I’m going to talk to the ladies about this program. Thanks for the link.