A new program at Wake County Public Schools is helping keep food out of the landfill and inside hungry bellies.

Toward Zero Waste is a Cary-based nonprofit group ... and fruit were being thrown out by Wake students. A 2024 audit of lunch waste of Olds and Wiley elementary schools in Raleigh found that ...

"When it comes to packing your child's lunch, instead of using plastic single ... There are so many awesome zero-waste ways ...

Zero Waste is defined as: The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging and materials without burning and with no ...