Luis Pozo’s lunch tray was the size of a notebook, a thin cardboard rectangle he used to carry his noon meal through the cafeteria of Francis Scott Key Middle School in Silver Spring.

Dotted throughout the noisy lunchroom, new stainless steel trays now carry the lunches children eat. They’re shiny, durable and, most importantly, reusable. One month ago, the school of just ...

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The used lunch trays Emily Fox took home about four years ago from the loading dock outside her elementary school were gross, some still plastered with ketchup. Emily stacked the trays in piles of 10.

Nicolas Shahin holds his new fiber lunch tray in the cafeteria at Kingswood Elementary School which piloted the ‘Every Tray Counts’ program to transition all Wake County Public School ...