Carrying two plates and a coke is a challenge many college students say they can handle. The lunch lines at food courts and cafeterias at college campuses have lost the clatter of trays. Hoping to save water, conserve energy, and reduce food waste, colleges are dumping trays and hoping students can still balance their salad bowls, pizza, and coke without them.
This is no doubt sad news for students in the frozen North who have long re-purposed the slick trays as sleds in the winter months. Check out this video of Ithaca College students using their trays for enter-tray-ment.
It also must come as a disappointment to punsters at campuses across the country who carved monikers in the trays: O. Tray Simpson, It was the worst of trays, and, perhaps the most ubiquitous t-shirt and tray figure at institutions of higher learning: Tray Guevara.
The New York Times, in a front page story, noted that the trend of ditching trays is spreading. The College Sustainability Report Card (a great tool for assessing how green universities and colleges are) found that 126 of the 300 schools it surveyed are abandoning cafeteria trays. So, adios trays. Like sands through the hourglass, these are the trays of our lives.
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