A group of metro Atlanta parents are pushing school districts to be more environmentally sustainable, starting with the lunch line. Consider this mind-boggling number: Atlanta Public Schools goes ...

Fourth graders Dora Cabarcas, Celine David and Maddie Woods during lunch time at River Oaks Elementary in March. When Houston ISD fourth grader Dora Cabarcas read an article about how a 12-year-old in ...

The Ellensburg School District throws out 272,000 Styrofoam trays thrown out every year. These trays usually end up in a landfill and will never decompose. With that in mind, the district is ...

FARGO — At a time when children are encouraged from all corners to reduce, reuse and recycle, they may be receiving contradictory messages in their school cafeteria. Each day during breakfast and ...

MOORESBURG — Liberty Valley Intermediate School and cafeteria officials surprised a group of seven fifth-graders by switching from Styrofoam trays to plastic trays for lunch Monday. "They clapped for ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- A wave of environmental change is happening in school lunchrooms across Florida. "I've heard from a lot of teachers. They hate seeing the amount of waste generated in school ...

As restaurants and retailers have struggled to keep their doors open during the pandemic, foam containers have become the lifeblood of many restaurants as takeout orders have exploded. But Connecticut ...

Lunchtime in the School District of Philadelphia has become a lot greener. Last month, District cafeterias dumped the use of plastic foam cafeteria trays in favor of compostable plates produced from ...

As dismissal bells rang and a light mist began to fall on the students playing pickup football in front of River Oaks Elementary School Tuesday afternoon, three students continued their work indoors.

FARGO - At a time when children are encouraged from all corners to reduce, reuse and recycle, they may be receiving contradictory messages in their school cafeteria. Each day during breakfast and ...