Glacier Parks Waste Free Lunch Program

                 By: Mikell Fuller & Marie Vandenbosch

Every year at Glacier Park Elementary School there is a waste-free lunch program in the cafeteria. During this program students in all grades try to pack a lunch without anything that would not have to go to the landfill. Glacier Park has a compost bin for leftover food or paper to go into. It is ok to have stuff that can go in the compost. If a student has a waste-free lunch then they write their name on a slip of paper and put the paper into a big box that is labeled “WASTE FREE LUNCH”. A few third grade classes sent out several students to watch the children during lunch to make sure that they brought a waste-free lunch. At the end of the month the cafeteria staff goes onto the stage and announces the names of the winners. The way they find out who the winners are is they pull names out of the waste-free box. The winners receive prizes made from recyclable materials from things like Capri Sun pouches or chip bags. A few of the prizes were backpacks, lunch boxes, messenger bags or pencil cases. Surely, this has been a fun experience and has helped the environment.