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From trash to tech: How QR-coded trays transformed a school’s lunch program
Jonathan Ernst, the custodian at Needham Public Schools’ Middle School, used to take out nine barrels of trash each lunch ...
The Washington Post12y
It’s not easy to replace foam lunch trays with greener options, school officials say
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN17d
American Schools Have Been Feeding Children for More Than 100 Years. Here’s How the School Lunch Has Changed
A new exhibition in Philadelphia explores how nutritional science, technological advances and political debates shaped the ...
Seattle Times12y
It’s not cheap to replace foam school-lunch trays with green options
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 Washington Post6mon
Lunchables taken off school lunch trays because of lack of demand
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 ...
AZ Central3mon
Farmers help fill school lunch trays with local food, but federal funds are less certain
Most of the food for school lunches is brought in from different locations, in part because of the need for large orders and nutrition requirements. Tucson Unified School District has partnered ...