For healthier, greener school lunches we should cut plastic waste
School lunchrooms are a surprising source of single-use plastic. Food distribution companies like Sysco can help schools reduce plastic waste.
Kids’ health
Few things are more important than keeping kids safe and healthy. Working together, we can protect them from hidden dangers, toxic threats and unsafe products and practices.
We all work hard to make sure the young ones in our lives and communities can grow up happy and healthy. In many ways the world is safer than it has ever been for kids — but there are still way too many avoidable risks and hidden dangers that kids face every day. Together, we can better alert parents and communities about threats to kids’ health; we can ensure everyone has access to resources that will help them keep their families safe; and we can work together around commonsense solutions.
The Latest on Kids’ health
Antibiotic-free fast food: Some companies are breaking their promises
Report links chemical found in pesticide to autism, hyperactivity
Updates
United Nations: Save millions of lives, reduce the overuse of antibiotics
280 more school districts are getting clean buses
Why we’re supporting a ban on TCE
Featured Resources
Stop Toxic PFAS: The George “Walter” Taylor Act
Lead in Philadelphia Schools
Get the Lead Out: Safe drinking water at school
Leading consumer, health and food groups urge McDonald’s to quickly reduce antibiotic use in beef supply chains
Did You Know?
Medical experts estimate that more than 24 million American kids are at risk of losing IQ points due to lead exposure.
What We're Doing
With research indicating that most states are failing to protect children from lead in schools’ drinking water, we need policies that are strong enough to “get the lead out” at schools and preschools.
The Latest
Type
Celebrating new protections taking effect in 2024
If there's one thing better than winning the passage of a new law, it's seeing the new law begin to improve the quality of people's lives and our environment.
Looking ahead: protecting the climate, nature and consumers in 2024
A glance at PIRG's, Environment America's plans to serve the public interest in the new year
Back to School on an Electric bus
Just a few years ago, electric school buses were practically unheard of. Today, more than five million students across America attend school in a district with electric buses on the road - and that number is growing fast.
I deleted my Instagram as a teenager – here’s why
Instagram can be bad for teens, particularly young women. After requesting my data from Instagram, I could see why.
Why is Red Dye #3 still being used in our food?
Thirty years after Red Dye #3 was banned from use in cosmetics, this toxic additive is still being used to, for example, make freeze pops a brighter red. That's nuts.
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Murray
Teresa
Murray
Consumer Watchdog, PIRG