It is back-to-school time, and I want to challenge all of you eco-minded parents to send your kids to school with a waste-free school lunch. What is a waste-free school lunch? It’s simple: Nothing that you send in your child’s lunch gets thrown away. Everything comes back home so it can be reused in the next day’s lunch.
Last year was the first year that I focused on a waste-free school lunch with my kids, and it went really well. The kids loved their fun, reusable sandwich and snack bags and the eye-catching designs had their classmates asking what it was that they were using. Let me share with you what we did to meet our goal of a waste-free school lunch year so that you can have the same success this year.