Waste-free or status quo? Which lunch is the question

• Americans use 500-million plastic straws every day. (No need to look smug; I’m sure on a per capita basis we’re on par here in Canada.)
• The average student produces 27 kilograms of lunch waste each year. That’s more than the average kindergarten student weighs.
• Many lunchboxes aren’t safe! A recent study by the Center for Environmental Justice HEJ shows that vinyl back‐to‐school supplies — including lunch kits — are laden with hidden toxic chemicals.

We have a perfect opportunity for people power! You — along with every other busy parent already packing school lunches in Canada — can fix this!

You can pack non-toxic litterless lunches. In doing so, you’ll be socially responsible and you’ll save money and change the world!

Better Back To School Brigade dishes on waste-free lunches
It’s no wonder eco-bloggers and expert parents are flooding cyberspace with waste-free lunch menu suggestions, non-toxic shopping guides and ways to save money!

Still not convinced? You’re going to fall off that fence and land smack in a BPA and phthalate-free bento-style lunch kit, once you have a look at what My Healthy Green Family discovered about the average school lunch!

So, the only thing left to manage is food scraps. Compost those and you’ll have theultimate green school (or work) lunch! (If no school program exists either start one or have food scraps brought home.)

Which leaves just one question: What do you do with the old-school lunch kit? I suggest repurposing it into art or nature exploration kit!