Waste-Free Lunch Trash Audit

On April 20th we conducted another lunch waste audit to compare the results between a 'normal' lunch day and a 'waste-free' day. The school reduced their total waste by 19% and food waste by 33%! Here are the findings:

Photos of the waste audit

	Mar 11, 2011	Apr 20, 2011	% change
plastics	6	8	+33%
milk containers	10	9	-10%
food	48	32	-33%
styrofoam	4	6	+50%
total weight	68	55	- 19%

worst offenders:

37 unused spork containers

3-4 gallons of milk poured into the waste bin (next time will we weigh the wasted milk)

several untouched bananas/oranges but greatly reduced from the apples in the last audit