Nothing seemed special about the plates from which students at a handful of Miami schools devoured their meals for a few weeks last spring - round, rigid and colorless, with four compartments for food and a fifth in the center for a carton of milk. If all goes as planned, compostable plates will replace plastic foam lunch trays by September not just for the 345,000 students in the Miami-Dade County school system, but also for more than 2.6 million others nationwide. Compostable plates are but the first initiative on the environmental checklist of the Urban School Food Alliance, a pioneering attempt by six big-city school systems to create new markets for sustainable food and lunchroom supplies. The alliance members - the public school systems in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Orlando, Fla.
Source: NEW YORK TIMES
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