Should Our Cafeteria Use Edible Bowls?
Pollution is causing a harmful and poisonous impact on our environment. This pollution can contaminate our air, water, and soil.
While there are many causes of pollution, Eastside students can contribute to the problem by littering. When we don’t put our waste in the trash cans around campus, our environment becomes dirty. The rotting trash can bring bugs, such as cockroaches, mosquitoes, and flies. In the worst-case scenario, it can also bring disease.
This is one of the reasons why there’s a push to keep our campus clean. Our administration walk around during both lunches, trying to keep our environment clean by picking up trash that some students have thrown on the ground. But it’s not just the administrators who are picking up the trash left behind by careless students.
“I pick up trash and bottles anytime I see them,” says Dorien J., a current student. Dorien also picks up litter off-campus.
However, even when the trash is put in the trash can, it still ends up in the landfill. One thing that could help is if our campus switched to edible bowls, instead of plastic ones. Munch Bowls, a South African company, is making such bowls. They are crunchy, tasty, and completely edible. They are also much more expensive.
But not all students are intrigued by the possibility. And it’s not just the cost that’s the issue.
“I probably wouldn’t eat the bowls,” says student Imani High. “But I feel like they would be better for our environment.”
Another student, Amaryond Ausby, doesn’t think that edible bowls would fix the deeper problem: some students would still thrown them on the ground. “It wouldn’t be a good idea to edible bowls,” he says. “Kids still don’t know how to throw trash away. They would still throw them on the ground so the edible bowls would just be a waste of money.”
