Collect a few flat, white Styrofoam trays – the kind you get from buying meat or vegetables. (Talk to the kids about why reusing old Styrofoam is environmentally friendly.) ...

Making a Styrofoam mosaic is a whole lot of fun! It's an open-ended, colourful art project using one of my favourite thrifty craft materials: the Styrofoam produce tray. The littles and I love ...

We love crafting with styrofoam trays, so I always have a supply of them in the craft room. I run ours through the dishwasher to sterilize them before using them for crafts or activities.

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For decades, Styrofoam trays have been an indispensable part of the school lunch experience — emphasis on indispensable. The trusty old trays can’t be composted or recycled, and they tend to last for ...

Polystyrene foam is commonly incorrectly called Styrofoam, a trademark name for a foam used for insulation and in crafts. The district saw the machines as a way to reduce trash costs.

SAN MARCOS, Calif. — Students at a North County grammar school are combining their lunches with lessons about recycling. The nearly 700 Styrofoam trays they use during lunch are all being mel… ...

A student-generated idea to help the environment by getting rid of Styrofoam lunch trays in the school cafeteria is becoming a reality at Asheville’s Vance Elementary School.

Some produce comes wrapped on foam trays. Rather than throwing them away, they can be reused as paint palettes, crafts or packing material. You can place them in your pantry ...

Adults explain that money, old plumbing and other barriers mean Portland schools can't all switch to environmentally superior reusable trays this year. But students sound the alarm over waste ...

Giant styrofoam marionettes were used at City Hall on Monday to protest the use of the material in New York City school lunch trays, WCBS 880's Rich Lamb reported.