Litterless Lunch Prize Winners
Litterless Lunch prize packages awarded
Two local students ready to reduce waste by packing Litterless Lunches after presentation of two prize-winning food, reusable container packages from ABCA
Students returning to school this month can reduce pollution from microplastics by packing litterless lunches.
Litterless lunches save money, provide health benefits, lessen waste, and reduce impacts on water, land, and living things, according to Ausable Bayfield Conservation staff.
Students Halle and Rylan Corriveau are ready for school, and to help the local environment, with prize-winning Litterless Lunch packages. Their mother, Tamara Corriveau, was the draw winner for the two Litterless Lunch food-and-reuseable-container prize packages from the Ausable Bayfield Conservation booth at the Bayfield Fall Fair.
Halle and Rylan were each presented with an insulated lunch bag; three reusable containers; one Thermos; one reusable drink container; and one freezer pack. As part of the prize, Tamara will also receive all the necessary groceries to make lunches for the two children for the first week of a Litterless Lunch menu.
This Week One food prize includes granola bars and macaroni and cheese made by the Bayfield Berry Farm.
You may download the Litterless Lunch Menu on the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (ABCA) website at abca.on.ca. “When packing a lunch for your child, we list some ways to reduce impact on our water and land by reducing waste and to save money as well,” said Hope Brock, Healthy Watersheds Technician with Ausable Bayfield Conservation. “Litterless lunches are healthier for your child, for your local environment, and for your pocketbook.”
This is the link to the Litterless Lunch Menu.
Ausable Bayfield Conservation staff organized the prize draw for people who came and spoke with them at the booth at the Bayfield Fair. Entry in the contest was free of charge. Staff promoted water quality and waste reduction (including litterless lunches) in conjunction with eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016.
People can reduce pollution from microplastics by reducing the amount of disposable packaging they use. An eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016 event was held on August 20, 2016 and billed as “the world’s largest simultaneous sampling for microplastics in
history.” All-female crews led the way on this “world-first event in the Great Lakes” to raise awareness of toxic pollution and its impacts on public health. The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation was one of more than a dozen sponsors of the eXXpedition Great Lakes Mission.
Children (and adults) can protect the health of people and birds and aquatic animals by using less plastic and fewer reusable containers. Instead of using plastic bags, plastic wrap, or paper bags, students can carry a reusable lunch carrier and reusable containers. They can say ‘No’ to single-use juice boxes or cans and switch to a vacuum flask (such as Thermos-brand bottles).
The Litterless Lunch Menu offers a number of other tips as well. The average student lunch generates more than 60 pounds of waste each school year, according to the document. That waste can add up to as much as 20,000 pounds (or more than 9,000 kilograms) per school per year.
A packaged lunch full of disposable materials may cost more than $700 for
a student for the school year. A litterless lunch may cost less than $500 per school year, according to the menu document. The litterless lunch is likely to be healthier too, said Brock. To find out more visit wastefreelunches.org.
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