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 ...

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 ...

Leon County Schools throws away 2,508,000 lunch trays per year — and one local fifth-grader wants to change that. In late January, before the coronavirus disrupted the school year, Hartsfield ...

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 ...

A Windsor Terrace’s elementary school became the first in the city this week to abandon environmentally hated Styrofoam trays in favor of a newfangled pressed sugar cane version — but the school is ...

Tray it ain’t so. Styrofoam companies are about to lose their lunch over a city plan to replace the foam trays in school cafeterias with an eco-friendly compostable version. The Department of ...

Freezing meat is one of the easiest ways to extend its shelf life, but proper packaging is essential to maintaining its quality. You may have purchased meat at the grocery store already packaged on a ...

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Within the next week or so, the 34 second-graders at Woodbury Heights Elementary School will find out if they are finalists for the Philadelphia Zoo’s Albert M. Greenfield Foundation UNLESS Contest.

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 ...