That’s how many black plastic food trays are used every year at Burlingame, according to sophomore Ashlyn Wong. She and ...

A Georgia school district is considering swapping out plastic lunch trays with eco-friendly metal ones, and it's all thanks to students. At an Athens City School District board meeting in June, a ...

Six of the nation's largest school districts are ditching polystyrene lunch trays in favor of compostable plates. The hope is that they'll... Six of the largest school districts in the country have ...

BEAVERTON -- Meal prices in the Beaverton School District will increase next year by 10 cents per meal to pay for rising food and fuel costs and new plastic lunch trays. The Beaverton district is ...

SPRINGFIELD — Ninth graders at The Springfield Renaissance School never imagined their science class would be rooting through trash after lunch, especially on nacho day. And no one thought nearly a ...

All around the school cafeteria, what do we see? White Styrofoam trays. Trays that are tossed in the trash after just one use. Thousands of Styrofoam trays that are used each day, ending up in ...