We collected trays in our cafeteria for one week to see how many we use. It was GROSS!
We use about 500 trays a week. There are 36 weeks in a school year. There are 36 of us in this picture. That is about 18,000 trays in one school year.
We set up a table at our school's Sweetheart Dance and got petitions signed by students, parents and other community members asking to stop the use of the styrofoam trays in the cafeteria.
We took our petitions and went to the Board of Education meeting and presented our project. We asked them to consider another type of lunch tray.
We wrote letters to Dots Ice Cream, Hollywood Diner and Chik-fil-A imploring them to reconsider using styrofoam.
We made a mosaic with the cut up styrofoam trays that we saved from the landfill.