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." ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

She captures brown paper bags, cafeteria trays, and personal accounts — including a mother packing the same lunch for six years … and selling a cute brother's picture in the cafeteria to buy junk food ...

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