Similarities Between Landfills And Hot Lunches

When comparing the two graphs, both of them have their benefits and downfalls. While during the hot lunch week, more recyclable materials were used and if properly disposed of, can be helpful to the environment and decrease the amount of waste in landfills. The downfall of hot lunch is the fact that there is usually leftover food and food residue in the recyclable container, which means that it mainly gets thrown into the normal trash. With this factor and in addition its higher weight, the hot lunch garbage seems to put the most waste into landfills, which means that it also affects environment the most. Even though school provided hot lunches put more waste into landfills, they put more biodegradable waste into them which is better than plastic,
which is non-biodegradable. For packed lunches, there is a major increase in non-recyclable materials, but the overall weight in theory is twice as better for the environment because it puts less material into landfills to decompose and release gases into the air. Based on the collected data, packed lunches (in this specific case) seems to be more environmentally friendly despite its lack of recyclable materials.
The issue with the collected data is that it is very specific to me, and the lunches that I eat. It is entirely true that people eat different kinds of hot lunch, and each one produces a different amount of waste. The same goes for packed lunches. Due to my available resources, not everything within my packed lunches were environmentally friendly, such as food products that come in plastic packaging. I could have been more mindful of my trash production by using only tupperware to store my food in my packed lunches, but this was not the case. While the data cannot be 100% trusted, I believe that it is insightful data on lunches despite how specific of a case it is used in.