Grand View Elementary is encouraging its students to bring lunches that don’t generate trash. After the initial education period, the switch was easy and now approximately 85% of the school is completely trash free. Most parents jumped on board because their kids explained the environmental benefits. Once the parents got the hang of it, it became easy. “I was so used to packing everything in Ziploc bags and now it would seem so strange to use them” remarked Mary Hayes, an especially green mom at Grand View. Read the full article in the Daily Breeze.