Waste Free Lunch Committee

The Waste Free Lunch Committee recently distributed this letter to all the families in Prospect Sierrra:

Dear Prospect Sierra families,

    The 4th grade has decided to start reducing, reusing and recycling more seriously.  The 4^th grade has divided into four committees.  One of the committees is a Waste Free Lunch committee, which will be working to reduce the amount of garbage Prospect Sierra makes by encouraging students to bring a waste free lunch.

    What is a waste free lunch? A waste free lunch means that you don’t bring anything in your lunch that has to be thrown away or recycled.  Recycling is certainly good.  But not having anything that needs to be recycled or thrown away is even better.  For example, instead of wrapping your sandwich in tinfoil, which could be recycled, put it in a Tupperware container that your child can bring home.

    We will have our first Waste Free Lunch Day on Thursday, February 16. Hopefully, everyone will participate by bringing a waste free lunch that day.  We will be going around to the different tables at lunch to see who has a waste free lunch. Hopefully we will have very little trash on February 16.

    After that day, we will still going around to see who has a waste free lunch.   If we see that you have a waste free lunch, we will give you an award. The class with the most awards will get a prize. 

    We are asking you to try to bring waste free lunches.  If you can’t do it everyday, be sure that your lunch containers are recyclable.  We can save the earth a little bit at a time.

      JJJJThanks for your support JJJJ,

 The Waste Free Lunch Committee