What a waste
The numbers don’t lie: children’s lunches create a lot of garbage every day. Googling for some statistics, we pulled together some interesting tidbits:
- The typical child generates 67 pounds of lunchtime trash per year
- 38 billion plastic water bottles end up in landfills each year and take 700 years before they start to decompose
- Trash is often mistaken for food and eaten by ocean life
- 1.5 million barrels of oil are used in making plastic baggies and plastic bottles each year