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 ...

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.

The first lady is getting the blame for the how-gross-can-you-get trays of institutional food because of her advocacy of more whole grains, fruits and vegetables in public school lunch programs.

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

The state field representatives also check whether schools are meeting administrative requirements that don’t directly affect what ends up on children’s lunch trays. For example, recent ...

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

If students refuse to put a vegetable or fruit on their tray, the school isn’t reimbursed for that meal. Anybody who went to school can tell you that gross-looking school lunches aren’t new.

Nicolas Shahin holds his new fiber lunch tray in the cafeteria at Kingswood Elementary School which piloted the ‘Every Tray Counts’ program to transition all Wake County Public School ...