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Pizza is one of my favorite foods, I like it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But not only do I feel guilty because it’s fattening but the Pizza Box in itself is recyclable, but the Pizza Box with all the grease and food is not recyclable due to food contamination:
I just gotta Eco Ya;
- The people of America eat around 350 slices of pizza each second, or 90 to 100 acres per day. Each year, the pizza market is a $30 billion industry.
- In the U.S. alone there are about 61,269 pizza parlors.
- Everyone in the United States eats about 23 lbs., or 46 slices, every year. That?s a lot of pizza!
- Each year in the United States, over 3 billion pizzas are sold. That is how much cardboard??? going into our landfills.
- Pizza Hut alone was expecting to sell 2 Million Pizzas For Super Bowl 2011
How To Recycle:
- Contamination in the recycling business is a big problem. Some estimates put the costs of irresponsible contamination in the neighborhood of $700 million per year industry-wide. Gellenbeck estimates that for the City of Phoenix, contamination costs them around $1 million annually, because of damage to machinery, disposal costs for the non-recyclable material and wasted time, materials and efficiency. With the City processing 129,000 tons of materials in 2008 (around 7 percent of this is cardboard), money is an important factor as to why residents should know what their municipalities do and do not accept. (Source Earth911)
- Call you local recycler and see if they take them
- Tear out the ‘clean pieces and recycle them
Kathy, Sorry Kid, you’ve been greenwashed.
I love the design of the pizza box in the video but reality is: That design does nothing to reduce the amount of pizza boxes that go into landfills.
For starters, almost all cardboard boxes are made from or contain some recycled cardboard.
Secondly, cardboard that is contaminated with greasy food stuffs cannot be recycled. Every single “Greenbox” will end up in the waste stream. Just like regular pizza boxes, “Greenboxes” cannot be recycled.
When it comes to pizza boxes there are only 2 solutions: washable and reusable plastic or metal pizza boxes.
Or, wider acceptance of composting and waste to energy which remains under constant attack from the NIMBYs.
So true Bill, but some waste management does take pizza boxes. The best thing you do is make your own organic pizza or pizza with local products.
I guess this would do a good job of saving a few paper plates, maybe some dish washing detergent…. if nothing else, convenient for tailgating and picnics…