Typically orange or red, the gelatin swayed unsteadily on plastic spoons. Throughout, the fruit pieces, which were usually ...

Schools in Needham, Massachusetts have cut down on their food waste by replacing their old cafeteria lunch trays with reusable metal ones and they're already seeing results. "Food service ...

Debby Lee Cohen in 2013 while making a YouTube video for Cafeteria Culture, the nonprofit she founded that successfully fought to ban foam lunch trays from New York City’s public school system.

Despite the short-term inconvenience, with only one permanent kitchen staff member, Brown Avenue invested time and money into stainless steel lunch trays and utensils. A grant from the Rhode ...

Recently, the district has started to use reusable lunch trays. Initially, West Valley started using the new trays because the schools were unable to purchase other trays due to pandemic shortages.

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy ...

What DCPS does not yet do is consider the earth and future human health in their daily lunch service. The 23 million Styrofoam trays end up in landfills or (worse yet) in the ocean, year after year.