Fourth graders Dora Cabarcas, Celine David and Maddie Woods during lunch time at River Oaks Elementary in March. When Houston ISD fourth grader Dora Cabarcas read an article about how a 12-year-old in ...

Fourth-grader Kyle Podevels gets served lunch on a foam tray at Washington School, 8937 Big Bend Road, on Thursday, March 20, 2014. Such one-use foam trays are being replaced March 31 by washable, ...

Tray it ain’t so. Styrofoam companies are about to lose their lunch over a city plan to replace the foam trays in school cafeterias with an eco-friendly compostable version. The Department of ...

You might notice a change the next time you order takeout or bring home leftovers. A new Colorado state law is doing away with plastic foam and bringing in compostable containers. Meanwhile, a local ...

Amphitheater Middle School has instituted a lunch-tray recycling program it hopes helps save the environment while also saving the district money. The school, 315 E. Prince Road, recycles plastic ...

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.

YETI has just launched two new collections designed to protect your everyday eats and drinks as well as your rugged camping gear. The new Daytrip lineup, featuring insulated lunch boxes and soft ...

Few things are less fashionable than a sack lunch, except, perhaps, those boxy, insulated totes usually associated with schoolchildren. While brown bagging it, by some estimates, can save consumers $1 ...

So much of Coloradans’ discarded waste — averaging out to 5.6 pounds per person each day — winds up sitting in landfills thanks to a low recycling rate, but coming changes will outlaw most plastic ...

Luis Pozo’s lunch tray was the size of a notebook, a thin cardboard rectangle he used to carry his noon meal through the cafeteria of Francis Scott Key Middle School in Silver Spring. The ...