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

Now that the trays need to be returned at the end of lunch, the school is tackling food waste, too. At the end of lunch before winter break, a handful of students, including Amaral, hurried ...

The company said it hopes to revisit the decision and possibly resume offering the product through the National School Lunch Program at a later date. A Washington Post examination of Lunchables ...

More students – many of whom rely on school meals as their main or only source of nutrition and calories – are likely to toss their lunch trays. USDA research shows that school meals ...

On a winter day in 2014, cafeteria workers at a Salt Lake City elementary school took lunch trays from some 40 children who had overdue accounts and tossed their uneaten food in the trash.

SPRINGFIELD — Ninth graders at The Springfield Renaissance School ... ways to serve lunch at all the schools, including buying dishwashers, so meals can be served on reusable trays and plates.

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 ...

But some Indianapolis students see such fare on their lunch trays every day. Fresh produce and made-from-scratch meals are part of a new school meal program currently in two Indianapolis charter ...