Ditching Disposables: Labor, Lunch and Reusables in K-12 schools (2022)

The nutrition staff in schools have often been overlooked rather than uplifted as the frontline workers that they are. If nutrition staff are neglected, they cannot sustain new and innovative projects. CEH wants to help explore how to overcome the many challenges of hiring and increasing staffing hours to allow for reusables to be brought K-12 schools. Our speakers will provide a historic overview of nutrition staff labor in the US, what the current state of nutrition staff is, and how a district found a way to allow nutrition staff to increase their hours to wash dishes at 12 of their schools sites.