Recently, the two canteens at our senior high school campus called Hexinglong and Jinhaocai held an activity to raise student awareness of food wasting called the “eat up the food on your plate” campaign.

    Its aim was to stop students from wasting so much food. At lunch, if there was nothing left on a student’s plate, he/she would receive a smiling card from canteen workers. Then the student could earn various foods for free, depending on how many smiling cards he/she collected.

    The activity encouraged us not to waste any food and to learn the good habit of saving food.

    However, one day, I saw six students pouring their leftover food onto another student’s plate for fun. I found it ridiculous. In my opinion, only if everybody saves food will the “eat up the food on your plate” campaign have real significance.

    As far as I’m concerned, I think there are better ways students and canteens can save food. For example, students can order food they like to eat in advance online and the company can prepare the food according to students’ choices. If we have the access to food we like, we will eat it up and then nothing will be left on the plate and wasted.

    I hope measures will be taken by our school to make this operation go more smoothly.