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Imagine the amount of food waste and garbage after one meal at your house. Now multiply that by two, three, four, or five hundred kids and that is a lot of trash. Two sixth graders decided to do something about it by starting a program to reduce waste at their school called the Zero Waste Cafeteria Project. Reporter Carter Barrett brings us the story.
July 25, 2018
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