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HEALTHY SNACKS AND LUNCHES

In an effort to promote healthy eating habits and Canada’s Food Guide, we encourage parents/guardians to send healthy snacks and lunches to school with their child/ren. Examples of a healthy snacks and lunches: Fruit, cut up raw vegetables, cheese, ham sandwiches, et cetera…

LITTERLESS LUNCHES AND SNACKS

In an effort to be more environmentally conscious, we ask that when preparing your child’s lunches and snacks you package them in reusable containers and thermos. Please do not send food items in wrappers or packaging, but rather prepare these items at home and package them in a container. Juice can be purchased in large more economical bottles/cans and poured into thermos at home…

A litterless lunch is simply that. It is a lunch that creates no waste! It can involve the use of reusable containers to store and transport food. It involves the elimination of disposable products and the encouraged use of reusable containers. The goal of a litterless lunch is to reduce waste production, and therefore help to reduce our impact on the Earth.

We have introduced the Litterless Lunch to our students. Even a small switch or change in lunch habits can have a significant impact on each class’ waste production.

Please note the following facts:

1. It has been estimated that on average a school-age child using a disposable (lunch) generates 67 pounds of waste per school year. That equates to 18,760 pounds of lunch waste for just one average-size elementary school.

(http://www.wastefreelunches.org/)

2. Lunchtime trash is second only to office paper as the leading source of school waste. (Green Teacher Magazine, Fall 2004) (http://www.reusablebags.com/facts.php?id=22)

3. Food debris in a landfill decomposes only 25% in the first 15 years (how about composting instead?).

(http://www.ecolunchboxes.com/why_facts.html)

4. Each Canadian throws away approximately ½ kilogram of packaging daily. In fact, ½ of our city's Stony Field, ON solid waste by volume and 1/3 of our waste by weight is made up of packaging. (http://www.stonyfield.ca/en/earth/facts.aspx#waste)

5. Most people have lunch every day.

6. Most students have lunch at school.

Please Note: wrappers, empty drinking boxes, yogurt containers, plastic water bottles and the like, will be returned home for recycling