Did You Know?
Save the Planet
Trash-free kid's lunches....
Although we have nothing against
plastic sandwich bags (they’re nifty and neat), we were surprised to
learn the average child who packs a disposable lunch generates 67
pounds of trash a year. We were more surprised to learn a discarded
juice box retains its weight, volume and form for at least four
decades. That’s forty years! A banana peel that finds it way into the
landfill (instead of the compost pile) decomposes a mere 25 percent in
15 years.
With trash piling up each year and our planet
straining under the weight, we can see the value in packing children’s
lunches in reusable containers: no plastic sandwich bags, no juice
boxes, no candy wrappers, no individual packs of string cheese. To learn more, go to: www.wastefreelunches.org
Now we only need
to figure out how to convince our children not to throw away their
reusable forks!
(Source: The Chapel of the Cross Bulletin, Chapel Hill, NC February 10, 2008)
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