Schools across the country are aiming for a waste-free lunch period. Still using brown paper lunch sacks? Bag them, they say. Schools are asking parents and students to choose reusable cloth sacks instead of bags that get thrown in the trash. You won’t find plastic baggies or bottles on many school lists either. To meet eco-friendly lunch requirements, sandwiches and snacks need to be packed in plastic containers and water must be in a reusable aluminum bottle.
The schools’ view: more students packing eco-friendly lunch containers means less waste created at lunchtime. That’s good for the planet. A green lunch policy also benefits schools since cafeterias will require less clean up and there will be less cost for hauling garbage away.
But there are more issues to consider say some parents. They say that reusable containers are expensive and washing the containers also uses precious resources such as water and fuel. School officials argue that the containers don’t need to be replaced, so in the long run, the cost should be less than buying boxes of baggies and paper lunch bags. That is, if students don’t lose or misplace their containers. Parents claim kids are bound to lose the containers.
Despite the inconveniences, it seems many families are trying to go green. Sales of eco-friendly lunch products are on the rise. Sales of plastic and paper bags, once school lunch must-haves, are dropping.
What do you think? Is the added time and money involved in going green at lunchtime worth it? Should schools require kids to bring eco-friendly lunches?
14 comments:
I think that schools should let kids bring eco-friendly lunches or bring non eco-friendly lunches.
Do you think that kids should be able to bring non eco-friendly lunches or not?
-Xavier
I think that we should all start to use reusable lunch boxes because we need to stop polluting the earth
-Tyson
I agree that you should spend the money on the eco friendly materials because after you have had the materials for a long time they are much cheaper then to keep buying new cheap materials, and about kids loosing the new eco friendly stuff they eventually need to learn not to always leave stuff behind. Do you guys agree?
-Eric
I think that we should all start to use reusable lunch boxes because we need to stop polluting the earth
-Tyson
Me people don't have reusable cloth sacks just throw away bags.
What do you think?
-Dawson
I think you should use Eco-Friendly Lunch because it would be kind of tired when you always have to trash your brown paper lunch bags, but when you use reusable lunch bag, then it would be less tired and less trash, too. They should allow Eco-Friendly Lunch!
-Cooper
I think the schools should let both things because some people like to use both paper bags and plastic containers . That's why I think you should use both.
-Kylie
Honestly im my opinon kids should not have to bring Eco-freindly lunches for one in my opinon this is not wrong, plastic containers are exspincive and thay are bound to lose them and thats why i think that it should not be a rule to bring a Eco-Freindly lunch -Joey
I think that students should bring eco-friendly lunch boxes because your wasting trees from are environment. How would you respond?
-Jaliyah
I think the parents should look for cheaper containers and the lunch ladies should put a sign that says how much you need to get.
-shilah
we should go with plastic containers so we don't have to be wasting the trees and earths creations.
-riley:)
I think that kids should bring a paper bag or an actual lunch bag. Some people don't have as much money so they might not be able to buy reusable containers plus you accdentaly throw them away if your really young or if you in the 5th grade even.
I think that we should bring eco-friendly lunches because we are wasting things.
-Sarah
I think kylie is right and that you should not have to but they can if they really want to but should not have to but it should be on the parents account. -Joey
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