Every day I go to school and I enter the cafeteria, I see a huge lunch line of students that are hungry. I get up after finishing my lunch and all I see is piles and piles of uneaten food in the huge trash bins. I wonder to myself why these kids are throwing away so much food. This doesn’t happen once or twice, but every single day. According to USDA About 150 thousand tons of food are thrown away each day. That is a shocking number considering 25,000 people die of hunger every single day according to the UN.

Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, Wake County has made school lunches for free. That is really great for students who aren’t able to afford lunches, but unfortunately this encourages some students to take free food even if they are not going to consume it. Many people around the world are less fortunate than we are when it comes to nutrition. So, it hurts to know that so many people do not see this food as a blessing.

We as NC students are seeing this firsthand. We wanted to contribute to the fight against food waste, and we thought this petition would be a good place to start to raise awareness. We want to petition that food items that students don’t want should not be placed on their tray, so that it would not end in the trash bin, and that food goes to students who are going to actually consume it.

We as girl’s scout members, students, and as human beings, we think that there is a definite need to address this situation.

Please visit our website! We have a lot of good information there as well. 

https://sites.google.com/view/the-catastrophe-of-food-waste/food-waste/home