Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here’s how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria

Grist
By Jonathan BloomNov 28, 2018, 6:00 am143 pts
The red plum’s presence confounds the third grader. She didn’t want the fruit in the first place, yet there it is. She doesn’t want to eat it, but she knows that tossing it into the garbage at Oakland’s Hoover Elementary School is wrong. Standing before containers for trash, recyclables, compostables,…

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Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here’s how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria

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