Waste-Free Lunches estimates that most packed lunches for school alone creates about 67 pounds of waste per school year (that’s about 19,000 lbs of waste per each average elementary school). However, kids aren’t the only ones eating packed lunches. Many adults take their lunches to work. Some college students even make it a point to pack a healthy snack or lunch – and this creates waste as well. Especially if you’re using disposable plastic baggies, paper napkins, and other disposable containers.

One way around this issue is to buy reusable lunch gear. There are TONS of reusable lunch options for kids …read more

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Reusable Bags offers these (and other) facts related to plastic bags:

500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used per year – or one million per minute. Insanity; um yeah. Most don’t make it to a recycling facility.
“According to Australia’s Department of Environment, Australians consume 326 plastic bags per person, per year.”
“Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation.”
In 2001, Ireland consumed around …read more

Waste-Free Lunches estimates that the average child with a take-to-school lunch creates a whopping 67 pounds of waste per school year (that’s about 19,000 lbs of waste per each average elementary school). School lunches are full of waste. Some typical culprits…

Paper or plastic lunch bags and containers.
Snack packs of cookies, crackers, pudding cups, fruit cups, jello cups, and raisins.
Juice boxes, juice bottles, bottled water, or worse hard to recycle squeeze novelty drinks.
Plastic baggies, foil, and plastic wrap for all sorts of foods.
Lunchables or other building lunch kits.
Paper napkins and plastic silverware.

This year green it up …read more