Sodexo Embraces Earth Day on College Campuses across America by Going Trayless
By Kerry Noone, Marketing Communications Specialist

April 22nd marked the 28th anniversary of Earth Day, which is a worldwide campaign to protect our environment. Students on 300 college campuses served by Sodexo lined up to get their meals without the convenience of a plastic tray.

You may be asking yourself, "Why no trays?" The company’s studies show that when students use plates without trays, the amount of waste decreases by one ounce per plate. Furthermore, the environmental impact research shows that when trays are removed from dining locations, less food is wasted, less energy is consumed, and it reduces the amount of water and detergents used for washing the trays.

Trayless dining has so many unexpected benefits, and it's easy to achieve. Many of the approximately 600 campuses that Sodexo serves have already retired their trays. So far, the program has been embraced by Georgia Tech, Colorado College, Tulane in New Orleans, Georgia State, Rowan University in NJ and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

The environmental impact is calculated to be a savings of about 200 gallons of water a day per 1,000 meals served. Sodexo serves one million meals on campuses each day, which means the water-saving potential of this initiative is 200,000 gallons of water a day if all campuses agreed to go trayless.

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