The South Taranaki District Council (STDC) has teamed up with the Kai Kitchen Trust to help it minimise waste and become a zero waste organisation by providing biodegradable home-compostable packaging.
The Kai Kitchen Trust is a local Taranaki-based registered charity, working on alleviating child poverty through "kai and kindness".
The trust provides more than 400 lunches to 18 different schools across the Taranaki region every week for children who would otherwise go without.
As part of its mission to minimise waste, the council's environment and sustainability team will provide biodegradable home-compostable packaging for Kai Kitchen's kid's lunches to be used instead of the zip-lock plastic bags and plastic wrap used previously.
Once the lunches have been eaten, the packaging will be collected with any leftover food scraps and sent for commercial composting.