1. Waste Free Lunch Day!
How You Can Help the Earth by Bringing a Waste Free Lunch and Recycling

2. Waste Free Lunch Day Is…
A day where you bring your lunch in waste-free or reusable containers
A day where you try to have a very small amount of trash
A day where try to recycle anything that can’t be reused

3. Examples of Things to Bring on Waste-Free Lunch Day
Hard plastic containers
Hard silver spoons and forks
Soft cloth napkins
A Thermos
A water bottle that can be used again and again

4. What Not to Bring on Waste Free Lunch Day
Paper Napkins
Paper Bags
Plastic Baggies
Small snack packages

5. Recycling How do we recycle? What can we recycle?
What can’t we recycle?
Will it help the Earth?

6. How Do We Recycle? Blue bin in your classroom
At home there is a big blue bin
Make sure there is no food left in the things that you will recycle

7. What Can We Recycle? Juice boxes Milk cartons Colored paper
White paper
Foil
Plastic spoons and knives
Pudding cups
Fruit cups
Yogurt containers

8. What Can’t We Recycle? Tissues Styrofoam Plates with food on them
Paper towels

9. How Does Recycling Help the Earth?
Less waste in the dump
Stops bad things from getting into the air we breathe
Saves the Earth

10. Waste-Free Lunch Day Details:
You get a prize for having the least amount of waste
The first waste free lunch day is on the January 12 and every Tuesday for the rest of the school year
There will be a bin for trash and food that’s leftover and a bin for things that can be recycled
We will count how many trash bags you have at the end of lunch and see which grade has the least amount of trash