For parents with young kids, it has already begun: the messaging onslaught from the advertising machine, telling you that you need to buy everything new, that a new school year requires new supplies.

One day while volunteering at her son’s preschool, Amy Hemmert had a realization: lunchtime makes a lot of trash. “At the end of the day, the teachers had to haul all of that trash up to the curb for ...

Springfield, Mo. — How much waste are you creating just by packing a lunch? Laurie Duncan, the education outreach coordinator at the Environmental Services for Springfield, has some tips for reducing ...

Children throw out 30 per cent of their daily food intake at school, but clever meal-prep tricks could end lunch box waste forever. However, by thinking a little outside the box, parents can just as ...

If you pack school lunchboxes for your children, you’ll know it can sometimes feel like a real slog. It needs to be easy to prepare, nutritious and something children will actually eat. On top of this ...