Well sort of. While reading the article The Pizza Box Mystery, at Earth911.com, I found why parts of a pizza box, or any other paper product with left over food or grease on it could not be recycled. When paper products are recycled they aremixed with water and turned into a slurry. Well, when there is grease left on the pizza boxes and it is combined with water, we all know what happens, the grease goes to the top of the slurry, which ruins the batch.
So why do I say that pizza boxes are sort of recyleable? Because we can discard of the tainted portion of the boxes and recycle the parts that were not contaminated by food or grease. This way we aren’t wasting the whole box or ruinning a whole recycling batch.
Hopefully they will start making the pizza boxes out of recycled paper to begin with so that even the tainted part of the box that can’t be recycled, was at least already recycled once before. For me, more times than not the grease and cheese gets all over the top of the box by being smashed down, but next time I can, I will be saving that top.
That’s really cool about the Slurry. I had no idea that’s what it is called let alone the process.