Tag: pizza boxes

  • Plastic bags, pizza boxes and other ways you may be messing up your recycling

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    I am big on recycling. It’s part of my family’s weekly routine. But come to find out, a lot of what we’ve been doing is wrong — and we have been contaminating entire bins of recyclables. Metro Public Works has started auditing recycling routes to help reduce contamination from people like me. Ricky Lloyd, a Public Works […]

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  • The Struggle of Recycling Pizza Boxes

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    Pizza boxes are mostly made of corrugated cardboard, a material that gets the recycling go-ahead in most places. But if you’re just dumping the entire empty box in the recycling bin after you’ve finished your pie, you’re harming more than than you’re helping. That’s because once pizza grease and toppings touch the box, the greasy […]

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