Today,
Americans generate 10.5 million tons of plastic waste a year but recycle only 1
to 2 % of it. That means that everything else is either incinerated,
landfilled, or littered into the environment where it will break down into
millions of pieces and bioaccumulate in our food chain.
If we ge the whole school to do this during one of their art classes we could bennifit from the question: How could we not only help the amount of waste, but humanity.
At one school, the Trib measured and found that hundreds of pounds of food were being tossed in the trash ever day at just one school. That included whole apples, oranges and bananas, entire cartons of milk, unopened boxes of cereal.