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Trayless? Really? When I started hearing that colleges were going trayless all I could think was, "how is saving plastic by not using a couple of trays going to cut down on the environmental footprint of a campus that is the size of a small town?" Well actually, according to the New York Times, several studies have been done now pointing to rather large savings, and we're not just talking waistlines. As almost half of the 300 schools with the largest endowments across the US go trayless, we thought we... |




Image via: Getty Images
Trayless? Really? When I started hearing that colleges were going trayless all I could think was, "how is saving plastic by not using a couple of trays going to cut down on the environmental footprint of a campus that is the size of a small town?" Well actually, according to the