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Plastic Free Lunch Day Returns on April 19, 2023
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2023 – Last November, the Urban School Food Alliance joined Cafeteria Culture in hosting the first ever Plastic Free Lunch Day, a nationwide initiative to reduce plastic foodware and packaging in school cafeterias across the country. During the...
Washington Post: Lunchables in school cafeterias have child-nutrition experts concerned
Lunchables, the popular prepackaged meals aimed at kids and the time-pressed parents tasked with feeding them, have been a staple on school cafeteria tables for decades. But now, some of them won’t arrive from home in lunch sacks or boxes — the brand is offering a...
Washington Post: Schools are swamped by unpaid lunch debt, nutrition group says
School districts around the country are drowning in students’ lunch debt. Three months after the federal government stopped providing free school meals to all public school students, some districts are reporting thousands of dollars in unpaid bills. In one district,...
Urban School Food Alliance and Cafeteria Culture Announce Plastic Free Lunch Day USA Partnership
For immediate releaseContact: Debby Lee Cohen – 917-282-0253, [email protected] Urban School Food Alliance – [email protected] Cafeteria Culture – [email protected] WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2022 – On November 2, 2022, Cafeteria Culture...