JOHNSTON, R.I. — Brown Avenue Elementary’s cafeteria looks just like any other, except for one thing. Dotted throughout the noisy lunchroom, new stainless steel trays now carry the lunches ...

Some states already require schools to use reusable lunch trays. Rhode Island adopted a plastic-foam ban earlier this year, pushing schools to switch to steel trays. The girls quickly garnered ...

"We believe that HISD school district ... the disposable plastic trays from her Colorado county. At 12, Madhvi helped usher in a new state law that replaced plastic foam in favor of compostable ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI (WJAR) — Every school day, the Compost Crew at North ... through Rhode Island Department of education's "Get the Foam Out” program to limit harmful trash like Styrofoam ...