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Learn how to properly dispose of waste in the lunchroom to reduce landfill waste. Follow tips for recycling clean plastics, aluminum, and cardboard, and composting food waste. Help protect the environment and create healthy soil for future food production.
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Empty milk cartons, juice boxes, aluminum cans, and plastic bottles.ThenRECYCLEthem.
Juice pouches,Wrappers,Plastic forks, Sporks, &Chip bags go in the LANDFILL (garbage)
RECYCLE Clean plastics 1-5Clean aluminum foil Cardboard (No food residue)
COMPOSTALL food wasteincluding meat, bones, cheese, veggies/fruit,paper napkins, and towels
CLEAN plastic bags go in BAG RECYCLINGBags must be DRY and have NO food residue.
When eating a homemade lunch,the best way to reduce packaging waste isto bring a waste free lunch!
This is a landfill-look at all that plastic! Half of the plastic we use, we only use once and then throw it away. Every year about 500billion plastic bags are used worldwide. More than 1 million are used every minute. It takes 500-1,000years for plastic to break down.
Why Compost? To keep food out of the landfill To create healthy soil needed to grow more food It’s an easyway to help the earth