Pizza Boxes: Are They Recyleable?

By Leanne on March 9th, 2009

greesy pizza box

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. Read more…

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