The used lunch trays Emily Fox took home about four years ago from the loading dock outside her elementary school were gross, some still plastered with ketchup. Emily stacked the trays in piles of 10.

Dear EarthTalk: I’ve heard that New York City schools are trying out “Trayless Tuesdays” in their cafeterias in order to reduce waste. Why are trays such a big issue? And how can cutting them out on ...

Wake County school cafeterias are getting greener, with the school district becoming the latest in the U.S. to ditch plastic foam trays in favor of more environmentally friendly ones. All 187 Wake ...

Ten-year-old Austin Fendley learned all about recycling and conservation at Lovett Elementary School this year. That's why the fifth-grader was so stunned when he started thinking about the hundreds ...

With a highly competitive price point, our new Ultrazorb® tray, aptly named PETZorb®, is fully recyclable and can be produced using food grade rPET too. We bid farewell to yet another bloody soaker ...

SAN LORENZO — The local school district could take what some see as a step backward, returning to polystyrene foam lunch trays after switching to cardboard ones a couple of years ago. But the San ...

Recycling is typically thought of as a good thing. Except when the product you're dealing with is polystyrene -- considered environmentally taboo because its chemical makeup means it takes centuries ...

Luis Pozo’s lunch tray was the size of a notebook, a thin cardboard rectangle he used to carry his noon meal through the cafeteria of Francis Scott Key Middle School in Silver Spring. The ...

Wake County school cafeterias are getting greener, with the school district becoming the latest in the U.S. to ditch plastic foam trays in favor of more environmentally friendly ones. All 187 Wake ...