The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sponsored a waste-free lunch at the Mechanicsburg Middle School in Cumberland County where students prepared a lunch using reusable lunch bags, reusable containers and recyclable bottles.

After the lunch, students separated the remaining waste into recyclables, trash and food waste. The waste free lunch resulted in the collection of one bag of trash, one bag of recyclables, and half-a-bag of food waste instead of 13-15 bags of trash collected before the program.

To learn more about the initiative, visit the waste-free lunch webpage.

5/18/2007