Houston and most other school districts abandoned washable plastic lunch trays more than a decade ago ... making money and people don't realize how bad it is for the environment." ...

Schools in Needham have cut down on their food waste by replacing their old cafeteria lunch trays with reusable metal ones.

SPRINGFIELD — Ninth graders at The Springfield Renaissance School ... the Styrofoam trays,” said Allana Jenney, 16. “Styrofoam does not biodegrade at all, and it is really bad for you ...

Jonathan Ernst, the custodian at Needham Public Schools’ Middle School, used to take out nine barrels of trash each lunch ...

But there was so little appetite for the ultra-processed product — which had been reformulated to qualify for free or reduced lunches — that the company has ceased sales to school districts.

Food and beverage giant Kraft Heinz, announced Tuesday that it would remove Lunchables from the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which provides discounted or free meals to over 30 million low ...

A new exhibition in Philadelphia explores how nutritional science, technological advances and political debates shaped the foods on schoolchildren's trays ...