Students and teachers work together to reduce lunch waste and initiate litterless lunches.
Introduce litterless lunch to students, on their return from spring break. Litterless lunch objective is to have no waste at lunch. It is important for teachers to educate students and parents on how to have a litterless lunch. For the litterless lunch to be successful it is important for the school, students, and parents to work as a team.
For a class to reduce waste in their lunch is a gradual process. First goal may be for students to hold their drinks in reusable containers. Teacher may give statistics on how many water bottles, pop cans, and juice boxes will not go to the landfill, if each student converts to a reuseable drinking container.
Second goal might be for students to place their sandwiches in a plastic container instead of disposable sandwich bags. Teacher may ask students to show their different containers or the teacher may provide suggestions to parents.
Litterless lunch is a great goal to achieve for April to introduce Earth Month. Classroom teachers can compete against each other or schools can compete to motivate students to get involved in litterless lunch.
