Use Our Cafeteria Lunch Waste to Help Others
Story By: Natalie Willoughby
There are places all over the world where people go without eating.
Schools in Ethiopia hand out bowls of rice to their students to share with their entire family for that day.
In America, many are privileged to have an abundance of food. Since we’ve never had shortage, never been without, we have no regard to the amount of waste we produce. At Chrisman there has always been an absurdly high waste level in the lunchroom and it is sickening.
One of the most wasted items is fruit. Even though we are required to get fruit it doesn’t mean we need to waste it if we ourselves do not want it.
Senior Uriah Youell said, ‘Oh I eat it… or i’ll give it to a friend that eats it.”
Instead of wasting we should try to give it to someone that's going to use it for nutrients rather than a landfill. We should all follow Uriah’s lead.
Some students here don’t regard those less fortunate. If they have something they don’t want they don’t try to help others by giving it to someone that wants or needs it, they just throw it away.
According to Denise Pemberton the waste has forever been a problem here at Chrisman,
“Over the four years I’ve been here I haven’t seen a day where there isn’t food left on tables and the floor in the lunchroom,” she said.
Even when students know they won't eat this or won’t drink that they’ll still grab it and without care and leave it on the table, or the floor, or in the trash. According to our own lunch staff at least one full trashcan of untouched food is thrown away each lunch shift. We need to start donating and STOP wasting.
In our lunchroom we have a donation bin for any food or drink you may not want or eat. People refuse to use that bin, they would much rather overflow our landfills. The bin is placed strategically near the silverware and condiments, where most students travel after typing in their numbers.
This is the perfect time to drop off any food or drinks you don’t want, but no one does, no one cares, no one pays attention.
This is a sound place for a bin but a second one in the middle of the lunchroom could do wonders for waste. If there was a bin in the center of the lunchroom, near trash cans, people would see is as they are going to the trash and may toss anything they had extra inside. This would help to appease those that are too lazy to walk to the donation bin after lunch ends.
Overall the lunchroom waste is over exceeding a reasonable limit. Working together to inform and persuade students to stop, and think of someone or something other than themselves would help our school, our community, and our planet.
There are places all over the world where people go without eating.
Schools in Ethiopia hand out bowls of rice to their students to share with their entire family for that day.
In America, many are privileged to have an abundance of food. Since we’ve never had shortage, never been without, we have no regard to the amount of waste we produce. At Chrisman there has always been an absurdly high waste level in the lunchroom and it is sickening.
One of the most wasted items is fruit. Even though we are required to get fruit it doesn’t mean we need to waste it if we ourselves do not want it.
Senior Uriah Youell said, ‘Oh I eat it… or i’ll give it to a friend that eats it.”
Instead of wasting we should try to give it to someone that's going to use it for nutrients rather than a landfill. We should all follow Uriah’s lead.
Some students here don’t regard those less fortunate. If they have something they don’t want they don’t try to help others by giving it to someone that wants or needs it, they just throw it away.
According to Denise Pemberton the waste has forever been a problem here at Chrisman,
“Over the four years I’ve been here I haven’t seen a day where there isn’t food left on tables and the floor in the lunchroom,” she said.
Even when students know they won't eat this or won’t drink that they’ll still grab it and without care and leave it on the table, or the floor, or in the trash. According to our own lunch staff at least one full trashcan of untouched food is thrown away each lunch shift. We need to start donating and STOP wasting.
In our lunchroom we have a donation bin for any food or drink you may not want or eat. People refuse to use that bin, they would much rather overflow our landfills. The bin is placed strategically near the silverware and condiments, where most students travel after typing in their numbers.
This is the perfect time to drop off any food or drinks you don’t want, but no one does, no one cares, no one pays attention.
This is a sound place for a bin but a second one in the middle of the lunchroom could do wonders for waste. If there was a bin in the center of the lunchroom, near trash cans, people would see is as they are going to the trash and may toss anything they had extra inside. This would help to appease those that are too lazy to walk to the donation bin after lunch ends.
Overall the lunchroom waste is over exceeding a reasonable limit. Working together to inform and persuade students to stop, and think of someone or something other than themselves would help our school, our community, and our planet.