Bring your own food with you whenever possible. Creating a meal at home is cheaper and healthier than eating out. Pack a lunch before school, work, or before a long car trip. You'll lose weight, feel better, and save money all while helping the environment. We spend over $130 billion dollars every year on fast or take-out food. Not only is fast food loaded with fat, sodium and carbohydrates, it is also very bad for the environment. While it may be convenient for us out on the road, getting that food to every fast food restaurant on every highway exit in the country consumes millions of gallons of fuel a year. And that's not the only problem. Fast food packaging creates 1. 7 million tons of trash every year in the form of boxes, plastic or paper bags, plastic forks, etc.

THE FACTS

Fast food packaging creates 1. 7 million tons of trash every year in the form of boxes, plastic or paper bags and plastic forks.