Waste Free Lunch Day How You Can Help

Waste Free Lunch Day! How You Can Help the Earth by Bringing a Waste Free Lunch and Recycling

Waste Free Lunch Day Is… • A day where you bring your lunch in waste-free or reusable containers • A day where you try to have a very small amount of trash • A day where try to recycle anything that can’t be reused

Examples of Things to Bring on Waste-Free Lunch Day Hard plastic containers Hard silver spoons and forks Soft cloth napkins A Thermos A water bottle that can be used again and again

What Not to Bring on Waste Free Lunch Day Paper Napkins Paper Bags Plastic Baggies Small snack packages

Recycling How do we recycle? What can’t we recycle? Will it help the Earth?

How Do We Recycle? Blue bin in your classroom At home there is a big blue bin Make sure there is no food left in the things that you will recycle

What Can We Recycle? Juice boxes Milk cartons Colored paper White paper Foil Plastic spoons and knives Pudding cups Fruit cups Yogurt containers

What Can’t We Recycle? Tissues Styrofoam Plates with food on them Paper towels

How Does Recycling Help the Earth? Less waste in the dump Stops bad things from getting into the air we breathe Saves the Earth

Waste-Free Lunch Day Details: You get a prize for having the least amount of waste The first waste free lunch day is on the January 12 and every Tuesday for the rest of the school year There will be a bin for trash and food that’s leftover and a bin for things that can be recycled We will count how many trash bags you have at the end of lunch and see which grade has the least amount of trash