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If 10,000 NY Biters pack a lunch in the Lunch Sak every day for a month instead of in a paper bag and two plastic baggies, we'll keep the weight of 28 Hunters in trash out of landfills.

The average middle school bagged lunch contains 600 calories, with 30% fat and 21 grams of sugar.

Too Kool for School

The Bite

If you see Hunter Gross walking down the street, give him an eco-high five. Inspired by his science teacher's lessons on trash, 12-year-old Hunter watched his friends lug paper lunch bags to school and knew there had to be a way to cut down on the 20 million paper and plastic bags that end up in landfills every year. Result? His invention of the ProjectKool Lunch Sak - a washable, reusable cotton canvas bag that replaces old-school lunch bags. Since then - between Playstation and basketball - Hunter's added totes, backpacks, and messenger bags (which his sisters sell at college) to the PK line, all from fair-trade suppliers, with washable markers included (to sate doodlers and to personalize). It's enough to make school cool again.

Wanna Try

You might find Hunter Gross hanging with his friends at West Hampton Dunes beach in Long Island.

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