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St. Louis Park middle‑school Green Team urges district to cut single‑use plastic in cafeterias
Summary
Student leaders told the school board the district spends thousands on disposable utensils and lacks adequate sorting bins; they asked the board to support a Hennepin County waste‑reduction grant application and to expand composting and reusable silverware.
Miles Foudre and Sarah Jivangi, student leaders of the St. Louis Park Middle School Green Team, told the St. Louis Park School Board on Feb. 25 that the district’s cafeteria waste practices rely heavily on single‑use plastics and that school staff denied a recent grant request to address the problem.
The students said they applied in December 2024 for a Hennepin County Waste Reduction Grant to replace disposable plasticware with reusable silverware and to add waste‑sorting stations. “We want the plastic utensils out of our lunchroom and in replacement silverware,” the students said in their presentation to the board. They said the…
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