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

The stainless steel trays are reusable and get picked up and washed by Re-Dish, a company dedicated to replace single-using ...

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

A new exhibition in Philadelphia explores how nutritional science, technological advances and political debates shaped the ...

Last school year, food giant Kraft Heinz began offering its signature Lunchables for sale to school systems across the nation. But there was so little appetite for the ultra-processed product ...

FITCHBURG — Being eco-friendly is extremely important in Fitchburg Public Schools. In Nutrition Services, a switch to compostable, non-styrofoam food trays has been in the works for close to ...

The Knights are at the heart of a growing farm-to-school movement, a statewide effort to get more fresh, local produce onto kids’ lunch trays and connect them with food-based learning opportunities in ...