Green groups prep for back-to-school with Trash Free Lunch Challenge
Reusable lunch boxes will be distributed to first-graders of the following schools on the below dates, times and locations: Grand View: At school on August 27, from 9 a.m. to noon on back-to-school night on August 30, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Pacific: At Kim Castner’s home (see school newsletter for address) on August 28, from 3 to 5 p.m.; on campus August 31 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Pennekamp: At school on August 31 from 8:15 to 9:30 a.m. Robinson: At school on August 31 from 3 to 4 p.m. The City of Manhattan Beach and Waste Management have provided the lunch boxes, which are produced by Go Green Lunch Box, a local company. In an effort to reduce the amount of trash entering landfills from schools, Grades of Green has partnered with the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County to bring the Trash Free Lunch Challenge to schools. Students at participating schools will learn the “four R’s” – recycling their milk cartons, reducing the amount of trash they use, reusing items like water bottles, cloth napkins and utensils, and rotting, or composting, their banana peels. “Grades of Green is helping change kids habits for a lifetime,” said Melissa Bailey, communications director of the…
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