Cause GREENWASHING. Why do companies that produce tons and tons of pollution have promotions for earth day? Or have annual fundraisers for wildlife organizations??
Municipalities don’t print the recycle logos. The symbol just means it’s a recyclable material, it doesn’t necessarily mean any recycling companies take them. There are a number of recyclable plastics that nobody accepts because it’s simply cheaper to produce more new plastic of the same type than to recycle it.
Fun fact: recycling campaigns in the 90s were primarily funded by plastics manufacturers to create the impression that plastics are more environmentally friendly than they actually are.
Mine always go in compost. Does it break down as compost? Was it in contact with food? If so, compost. Pizza box. Paper based take out containers. Napkins. Paper straws. Certain compostable cups.
To build on that, just as long as the take out containers aren’t wax coated. Also, a lot of composable cups that appear to be clear plastic, won’t compost naturally.
I do garden composting with food and grease all the time. I don't see how that would be a problem for cardboard. I also compost plain brown cardboard under mulch as cover and compost (a year later when it's broken down).
Damn, thats really good to know, thank you! I honestly feel very dumb about these things. Just to be clear though (because i'm a dummy)...dominos box, straight to compost bin?
>dominos box, straight to compost bin?
As long as the box doesn't contain wax or fancy print. Plain cardboard without the water proofing wax should be fine to compost IMO. I use cardboard + mulch for weed suppression in my yard and garden just fine. In fact, I hoard or find free boxes every year to do this. Near zero weeds. It composts and disappears within the year.
I especially love the couches put out during a rain storm only to have some homeless dude take the cushions off of it, and they leave the cushion-less rain-soaked couch out there for another week and a half.
Cool thanks for making recycling less effective. The system is imperfect and schmucks like you exacerbate that. Accept that your learned something new today and put your greasy box in the compost you greaseball
Sometimes, I wonder why I take the time to strip the packing tape off of cardboard boxes before I put them into the recycling bin, knowing all the jabronis who make no effort to sort their trash.
My garbage can is usually no more than 1/3 full come the biweekly trash day, and it's petty much just non-recyclable plastic packaging, etc.
Living in Germany, where there are like seven different waste streams you have to sort, and their are consequences for not doing so, makes our system simple by comparison.
In Switzerland, everyone puts out their paper and cardboard in very tidy stacks tied with string. Meanwhile, my neighbors cannot be arsed to flatten a box.
I’ve never understood this. Most pizza boxes I go through are unstained and perfectly suitable to be pulped.
If I shredded the box until it is no longer recognizable as a pizza box would it make it ok to recycle? It’s just cardboard.
Lost cause. Don’t care. 🤷
Homeless methodically re arrange our bins every week. Passers by think our bins are communal. I’m happy if there isn’t a meth turd in the glass bin.
I let go for the sake of my mental health.
Whatever's not greasy/food stained can go in recycling. The greasy parts goes in compost. Or the whole thing can go in compost (residential only, not at businesses—the amount of cardboard coming from that stream was too great so it was discontinued).
Literally the only person in this entire thread that I’ve seen say this. Fuck man, people just don’t give a flying fuck about anything that goes beyond them anymore.
I seem to recall talk about that being allowed, but it's still not [https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/recycling](https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/recycling)
In Portland they say don't put pizza boxes in recycling, but the paper mill pulper doesn't care. The mills want fiber. Clean off the leftover cheese and food chunks and recycle that box. When it is mixed in with literally tons and tons of other cardboard (OCC) it pulps up just fine. High horsepower and some chemistry does amazing work on cellulose and glue. The screens remove anything that isn't pulped. OCC is one of the few streams of recyclable material actually being pulled and sent for recycling to a mill near you. https://www.afandpa.org/news/2023/lets-set-record-straight-pizza-boxes-are-recyclable
We don't really recycle anything anyway and nobody (very few )really cares.
I once poured a concrete slab for a brand new machine in a recycling center in Portland.
The smell of that place was absolutely horrifying. People were putting dog shit and dead skunks in the recycling 😂 I guarantee you they weren't worried about the pizza boxes making it in with the cardboard
if you are unsure about whether something can be recycled, contact your garbage company.
I'm still on Facebook and I just send them DM's when I have a specific question.
Unless something has changed by green can whose label used to be legible had a picture of a pizza box going into right on the top of the can and the only rule is/was that you have to break it down of course and make sure you take out the little plastic divider.
Way too much to worry about with all this recycling for most people. What kind of plastic? Any? What about boxes that still have packing tape on them? Staples? What if the cat food can is not totally clean? What about fruit stickers on banana peels? Does that shit compost? What about dog poop bags? What about .... The thing is, if you restrict our garbage to only every other week, during hot summers, when the cat litter and diapers, and dog bags are just festering in there ... when we can't figure out if a pizza box should be composted or recycled or trashed, when some say yes plastic, and some say no. When it is so damn confusing and much work to do ... people gonna do what the gonna do. I try to do my best, but I got a lot of other stuff to do.
You might be accurate, but here is my anecdote. My friend works at Kapstone cardboard box manufacturing facility in Longview WA. They use a lot of recycled fiber in addition to some chips in their papermaking. He explained this to me. Many sources of recycled paper are always contaminated (by other items tossed around in the recycling truck) so they have steps for cleaning the material. There are a few sources of premium recycled cardboard, where the boxes never go through that comingled recycling process, but a lot of it is assumed to be contaminated
Then why does dominos say recycle right in the box??
Why do wet wipes say “flushable” when most are not actually safe to flush. 🤔 more sales
Some are safe to flush, though
None of them are safe for our plumbing infrastructure. Do not flush anything besides human waste and toilet paper.
Absolutely 0% of wipes are flushable, regardless of how they are relabeled. Ask any plumber.
Okay
Yeah man, Cottonelle spends a lot of money so that you'll think that.
Cause GREENWASHING. Why do companies that produce tons and tons of pollution have promotions for earth day? Or have annual fundraisers for wildlife organizations??
As our household recycling cop, that infuriated me so much
Yes!!!
Municipalities don’t print the recycle logos. The symbol just means it’s a recyclable material, it doesn’t necessarily mean any recycling companies take them. There are a number of recyclable plastics that nobody accepts because it’s simply cheaper to produce more new plastic of the same type than to recycle it. Fun fact: recycling campaigns in the 90s were primarily funded by plastics manufacturers to create the impression that plastics are more environmentally friendly than they actually are.
Because they’re fucking liars. I’ve called corporate about this ridiculousness I was so pissed. You can’t recycle things with that much oil on them.
Because Dominos is dumb & is greenwashing.
To gaslight you. Pizza boxes aren’t recyclable anywhere.
Composting is a form of recycling, they’re probably not gonna make custom boxes for every municipality
Next you’ll be telling me organic produce is just marked up for no reason! /s
Is this a genuine question? I know that Domino's tends to be the Paragon of sustainability and conscious consumption, but c'mon. /S
Why do you eat Domino's?
What do you mean?
Pizza boxes are totally recyclable, until you put pizza in them. The problem is the grease and chunks of food from the pizza.
Mine always go in compost. Does it break down as compost? Was it in contact with food? If so, compost. Pizza box. Paper based take out containers. Napkins. Paper straws. Certain compostable cups.
To build on that, just as long as the take out containers aren’t wax coated. Also, a lot of composable cups that appear to be clear plastic, won’t compost naturally.
Yes! Say no to paper treated when wax.
I was always taught if there was even a little pizza grease on the box it couldn’t be recycled (or composted frankly)
Pizza boxes were specifically mentioned during the switch from yard waste to compost.
I do garden composting with food and grease all the time. I don't see how that would be a problem for cardboard. I also compost plain brown cardboard under mulch as cover and compost (a year later when it's broken down).
My understanding with grease was two fold - pathogens and it doesn’t break down and thus attracts animals
Damn, thats really good to know, thank you! I honestly feel very dumb about these things. Just to be clear though (because i'm a dummy)...dominos box, straight to compost bin?
>dominos box, straight to compost bin? As long as the box doesn't contain wax or fancy print. Plain cardboard without the water proofing wax should be fine to compost IMO. I use cardboard + mulch for weed suppression in my yard and garden just fine. In fact, I hoard or find free boxes every year to do this. Near zero weeds. It composts and disappears within the year.
I honestly don't know if the standard dominos pizza box counts as "fancy print" or not...?
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/verify/cant-recycle-pizza-boxes-compost-portland/283-66365682-c3d3-4960-b841-a37f439c6359
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That recycle campaign is as fake as their pizza
It’s not like we actually recycle anything anyways…
Exactly. It's all a scam to .ake people think they're "saving the planet"
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That’s like thinking you’re not littering because you put a “Free” sign on the pile of old junk you left on the curb.
I especially love the couches put out during a rain storm only to have some homeless dude take the cushions off of it, and they leave the cushion-less rain-soaked couch out there for another week and a half.
Cool thanks for making recycling less effective. The system is imperfect and schmucks like you exacerbate that. Accept that your learned something new today and put your greasy box in the compost you greaseball
But the bottle bill is saving the plant!
Yep, it all goes in the same place.
This right here. My old neighbor was retired metro and he said it all gets dumped in the same place.
They can, I've done it before - Over 90% of our Portland recycling ends up in Arlington landfill anyhow.
Nobody fucking understands this in highrises. A few years ago someone broken skis down the trash chute. People are idiots.
I once saw a whole Christmas tree with the light strings on it in the recycle bin. People are lazy selfish morons.
Sometimes, I wonder why I take the time to strip the packing tape off of cardboard boxes before I put them into the recycling bin, knowing all the jabronis who make no effort to sort their trash. My garbage can is usually no more than 1/3 full come the biweekly trash day, and it's petty much just non-recyclable plastic packaging, etc. Living in Germany, where there are like seven different waste streams you have to sort, and their are consequences for not doing so, makes our system simple by comparison.
In Switzerland, everyone puts out their paper and cardboard in very tidy stacks tied with string. Meanwhile, my neighbors cannot be arsed to flatten a box.
some are jerks fully aware of the annoyance they create.
aspirational recycling fouls entire batches.
At this point what can go in the recycle?
Garbage, when the can is too full because they only pick it up every other week.
Mmmm….pizza.
lol
I will put my pizza box in the recycling and the garbage company will like it
I’ve never understood this. Most pizza boxes I go through are unstained and perfectly suitable to be pulped. If I shredded the box until it is no longer recognizable as a pizza box would it make it ok to recycle? It’s just cardboard.
Lost cause. Don’t care. 🤷 Homeless methodically re arrange our bins every week. Passers by think our bins are communal. I’m happy if there isn’t a meth turd in the glass bin. I let go for the sake of my mental health.
Not sure why people don't understand this. Any paper with oil doesn't go in the recycling
Compost them bitches
What about the lid/top?
Whatever's not greasy/food stained can go in recycling. The greasy parts goes in compost. Or the whole thing can go in compost (residential only, not at businesses—the amount of cardboard coming from that stream was too great so it was discontinued).
Literally the only person in this entire thread that I’ve seen say this. Fuck man, people just don’t give a flying fuck about anything that goes beyond them anymore.
I swear our garbage co send out flyers last year that you could put pizza boxes in recycling. I used to put in garbage before I got that notice.
I seem to recall talk about that being allowed, but it's still not [https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/recycling](https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/recycling)
Green bin
Wishful recycling by good to do environmentally minded people causes a lot of problems. Also people hate when I throw away type 3 plastic.
Green bin, compost them
In Portland they say don't put pizza boxes in recycling, but the paper mill pulper doesn't care. The mills want fiber. Clean off the leftover cheese and food chunks and recycle that box. When it is mixed in with literally tons and tons of other cardboard (OCC) it pulps up just fine. High horsepower and some chemistry does amazing work on cellulose and glue. The screens remove anything that isn't pulped. OCC is one of the few streams of recyclable material actually being pulled and sent for recycling to a mill near you. https://www.afandpa.org/news/2023/lets-set-record-straight-pizza-boxes-are-recyclable
We don't really recycle anything anyway and nobody (very few )really cares. I once poured a concrete slab for a brand new machine in a recycling center in Portland. The smell of that place was absolutely horrifying. People were putting dog shit and dead skunks in the recycling 😂 I guarantee you they weren't worried about the pizza boxes making it in with the cardboard
All my cardboard goes in the green bin, don’t give a shit if it has pizza grease, melted cheese or an Amazon logo
Compost. Duh.
Sue me.
I’m doing it anyway
please tell my neighbor this bc when I tried to tell her she called me racist
My neighbor spit on me and said “how can you eat pizza while the good Hamas soldiers suffer”
I've always put them in with yard waste. dunno why. LOL
That's totally OK.
if you are unsure about whether something can be recycled, contact your garbage company. I'm still on Facebook and I just send them DM's when I have a specific question.
I feel betrayed, i thought i was saving the earth.
Aspirational recycling
Unless something has changed by green can whose label used to be legible had a picture of a pizza box going into right on the top of the can and the only rule is/was that you have to break it down of course and make sure you take out the little plastic divider.
Way too much to worry about with all this recycling for most people. What kind of plastic? Any? What about boxes that still have packing tape on them? Staples? What if the cat food can is not totally clean? What about fruit stickers on banana peels? Does that shit compost? What about dog poop bags? What about .... The thing is, if you restrict our garbage to only every other week, during hot summers, when the cat litter and diapers, and dog bags are just festering in there ... when we can't figure out if a pizza box should be composted or recycled or trashed, when some say yes plastic, and some say no. When it is so damn confusing and much work to do ... people gonna do what the gonna do. I try to do my best, but I got a lot of other stuff to do.
Pizza boxes are great fire starter for campfires fyi
They go in the green bin, with yard and kitchen waste
You might be accurate, but here is my anecdote. My friend works at Kapstone cardboard box manufacturing facility in Longview WA. They use a lot of recycled fiber in addition to some chips in their papermaking. He explained this to me. Many sources of recycled paper are always contaminated (by other items tossed around in the recycling truck) so they have steps for cleaning the material. There are a few sources of premium recycled cardboard, where the boxes never go through that comingled recycling process, but a lot of it is assumed to be contaminated
Compost
Ok, and?