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Article: Students living the tray-less life at St. Paul's School; Educators say they want to reduce waste
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- Concord Monitor
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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To tray or not to tray? If you're a student or staff member in the
St. Paul's School cafeteria, that is the question.
Rector Bill Matthews and Kurt Ellison, the school's director of
food services, would say to go tray-less. The two are behind an
initiative this year to remove dining trays from the cafeteria in an
effort to cut down on food waste. Their hypothesis is that people
will take less (unnecessary) food if they have to balance their
plates in their hands.
So far, their plan is working, as most students have cast aside
the red plastic trays. But there are some dissenters.
"It's nice to sit down and relax, and not have to run to the
kitchen all the time" to get more food, said senior ...