Apparently the "reduce, reuse, recycle" ethic does not always apply to plastic cutlery. In response to scathing criticism, a Pennsylvania school district has discarded its longstanding practice of issuing plastic utensils to students, then washing and reusing them after each meal. The effort had saved the North Penn School district $15,000 a year, reported the Associated Press. "It's just gross. Really gross," said sixth-grader Andrew Gawell, a student at General Nash Elementary School. "You would sometimes get spoons with bite marks in them." A parent of another General Nash student, whose daughter often griped about teeth marks and forks with missing tines, denounced the practice as an "unsanitary mess." Commenting on the district's decision, the coordinator of school/community services said, "This is a way to give the parents what they want."
Cutlery Conundrum
Apparently the “reduce, reuse, recycle” ethic does not always apply to plastic cutlery. In response to scathing criticism, a Pennsylvania school district has discarded its longstanding practice of issuing plastic utensils to students, then washing and reusing them after each meal. The effort had saved the North Penn School district $15,000 a year, reported the […]
