Weighing of leftovers in school of Alovė

REPORT

Weighing of leftovers in the canteen of the lower secondary school of Alovė,

22 January, 2015

Pupils of the 7th grade did a survey about food waste in the school canteen. They also interviewed participants of the project “Teenagers being innovators” about food waste and leftovers in their homes.

All students answered that there sometimes are leftovers of soup after dinner at their homes but these leftovers are usually given to animals, mostly dogs.  Leftovers of food are very seldom thrown away at home.

Results of the survey about food waste in the school canteen

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·         There were 77 pupils who had lunch on the 22^nd of January

·         There were 4.7 kg of leftovers: soup, vegetables, drink.  

      Every pupil left about 0.06 kg of food or drink. They leave garnish, vegetables, soup and drink more often than meat, sausages or pancakes.

·         Pupils like pancakes and schnitzels but they don’t like goulash very much.

·         The cooks of the canteen noticed that pupils who have to pay for lunch usually don’t leave leftovers.

·         However, pupils from social supported families leave more food leftovers as they don’t have to pay for lunch.

·         Older pupils more often leave food leftovers than younger ones as they buy some snacks in the shop before lunch in the school canteen.

To sum up, there are always food leftovers in our school canteen. The situation could be better if pupils wouldn’t buy snacks in the local shop before the lunch break.

The survey was done by Simona Aleksandravičiūtė, 7^th grade,

Neringa Matulevičiūtė, 7^th grade

Albinas Žemaitis, 7^th grade

Photos were taken by Kamilė Balynaitė, 7^th grade