Stop Wasting Food!
By: Anushaa, Dana, Uma
Our Logical Plan
-We are going to be giving every student a survey about their eating habits and that will determine which line they would buy lunch in. We are planning to make a compost bin to recycle food that goes to waste.
What energy/consumable habit needs to be changed at West?
-We need to stop wasting a lot of food at school.
-We need to eat everything we buy and not let it go to waste.
The reason we are choosing this change is....
-People eat like one thing from the school lunch like a sandwich and throw everything else.
-Perfectly good food is being wasted.
This change will be beneficial to West because…
-West would be saving more money and could use that money for school supplies and field trips, or even other school needs.
-Not many animals would come to the school dumpster so we are safer.
Food Waste
The average family wastes about $600 a year! Imagine how much a whole school could waste!
-One quarter of food is lost each year in the world. Mostly coming from schools all around the world.
-One in every nine people, 795 million go hungry everyday.
-Fruit selection has increased by 23.0%, and entree and vegeta selection remained unchanged. Entree consumption increased by 15.6%, vegetable consumption increased by 16.2%, and fruit consumption remained the same.
Compost
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