Trayless Tuesday's at Carkoski and Gage Dining Hall
The First Question, Why No Trays?
When students use plates without trays, the amount of waste decreases by one ounce per plate.
The Environmental Impact:
Research shows what when trays are removed from dining locations, less food is wasted, less energy is consumed, and it reduces the amount of water and detergents used.
Did you Know?
Everyday, Sodexo serves 2,355,128 meals to college students across the country.
The waste per meal: 1.2565 lbs with a tray vs. 0.4147 lbs without a tray.
Removing trays translates into a savings of 1,982,617 lbs of food per day.
Each year, we could sace over 515,480,524 lbs of food.
Enough to feed 109,676,707 people.
35 million people are at risk of hunger in the United States and we could feed three time that many with food wasted every year from using trays.
