Hot school meals and sustainability

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A positive lesson to our children in reuse and recycling

Anecdotal evidence would suggest that there are huge benefits to the provision of hot school meals, particularly in less advantaged areas. Improved attention, less negative behaviour and increased attendance patterns have been observed in children.

Rolling out school meals to half a million children daily will create an enormous waste issue locally for schools and environmentally for the state. Evidence in the US suggests that 15 per cent of waste is generated by school meals.

However, there are well-researched solutions. The English Market in Cork, under the Cork Urban Soil Project, has been successfully bio-digesting food waste into reusable soil in a short period of time for a number of years.

 

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