enjoy mustard ice cream in the [bad food] thread

Jedoc

For pizza boxes, corn plastic would actually be greatly preferable to cardboard! The main benefit of cardboard is that it recycles well, and cardboard is one of the most recycled consumer materials.

The main drawback of cardboard is that in terms of initial production, it has a larger carbon footprint than either plastic or bioplastic, and uses way more water pollution. Bioplastic doesn't recycle, but in one-time-use cases it's significantly greener than cardboard. Not only are pizza boxes non-recyclable due to their grease content, they can actually result in bins of perfectly recyclable cardboard being thrown out if people try to recycle too many of them along with their regular cardboard.

Unfortunately, I doubt bioplastic would stand up to hot greasy pizza very well unless you included so much petro plastic that most of the biodegradability was lost anyway.

Shorty

the problem with bioplastic is that it would probably make your pizza soggy

tynic

I have faith that between all of us this forum can find an eco-friendly method to get hot crispy pizza door to door

Uriel

Cook the pizza in the car

ChicoBlue

Deliver pizzas in glass bottles and then when you are done with pizza you put your bottles outside your front door and the pizzaperson collects them at the next delivery.

Brainleech

I said it was paperboard!
There is a wide difference between cardboard and paperboard

Brainleech

Dirtyboy wrote: »

A lot of companies use corn starch packing peanuts that melt in water. I freaked out some co-workers by eating one in front of them.

I get them often from a reseller I buy 40k stuff from in Europe. I would just save it and toss it into my neighbor's yard when it would rain

Xaquin

Pizza hut tastes great but gives me tremendous heartburn almost instantly

Stilts

Jedoc wrote: »

For pizza boxes, corn plastic would actually be greatly preferable to cardboard! The main benefit of cardboard is that it recycles well, and cardboard is one of the most recycled consumer materials.

The main drawback of cardboard is that in terms of initial production, it has a larger carbon footprint than either plastic or bioplastic, and uses way more water pollution. Bioplastic doesn't recycle, but in one-time-use cases it's significantly greener than cardboard. Not only are pizza boxes non-recyclable due to their grease content, they can actually result in bins of perfectly recyclable cardboard being thrown out if people try to recycle too many of them along with their regular cardboard.

Unfortunately, I doubt bioplastic would stand up to hot greasy pizza very well unless you included so much petro plastic that most of the biodegradability was lost anyway.

I

Uh

Actually had no idea that you couldn't recycle pizza boxes

This is good to know

Veldrin

Uriel wrote: »

Cook the pizza in the car

Ah yes, the mobile dutch oven

Naphtali

Stilts wrote: »

Jedoc wrote: »

For pizza boxes, corn plastic would actually be greatly preferable to cardboard! The main benefit of cardboard is that it recycles well, and cardboard is one of the most recycled consumer materials.

The main drawback of cardboard is that in terms of initial production, it has a larger carbon footprint than either plastic or bioplastic, and uses way more water pollution. Bioplastic doesn't recycle, but in one-time-use cases it's significantly greener than cardboard. Not only are pizza boxes non-recyclable due to their grease content, they can actually result in bins of perfectly recyclable cardboard being thrown out if people try to recycle too many of them along with their regular cardboard.

Unfortunately, I doubt bioplastic would stand up to hot greasy pizza very well unless you included so much petro plastic that most of the biodegradability was lost anyway.

I

Uh

Actually had no idea that you couldn't recycle pizza boxes

This is good to know

I mean you could cut up your pizza boxes to remove the non-grease covered parts.

Dirtyboy

@3clipse new thready time.

Commander Zoom

Unfortunately, no, you cannot.

But we can recycle threads! And it's about that time, yes?

Xaquin

Commander Zoom wrote: »

Unfortunately, no, you cannot.

But we can recycle threads! And it's about that time, yes?

this thread is too greasy

3cl1ps3

Dirtyboy wrote: »

@3clipse new thready time.

BY YOUR COMMAND

Centipede Damascus

Uriel wrote: »

Cook the pizza in the car

didn't they have a thing where they tried ovens in the vehicles at one point?

3cl1ps3

KRANCH

King Riptor

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

Cook the pizza in the car

didn't they have a thing where they tried ovens in the vehicles at one point?

Dominoes has heater box cars

Psykoma

Pizza boxes here can go in recycling if they're not too soiled, like if they had one of those paper/cardboard sheets under the pizza.
Otherwise spoiled pizza boxes can go in the compost bin.

Dirtyboy

@Whippy @Larlar @Bogey Please be closing this olde thread.

Commander Zoom

Psykoma wrote: »

Pizza boxes here can go in recycling if they're not too soiled, like if they had one of those paper/cardboard sheets under the pizza.
Otherwise spoiled pizza boxes can go in the compost bin.

Oh, that's much better than just throwing them away (I was so bummed when I found out, myself). I'll try that, thanks!

Psykoma

Commander Zoom wrote: »

Psykoma wrote: »

Pizza boxes here can go in recycling if they're not too soiled, like if they had one of those paper/cardboard sheets under the pizza.
Otherwise spoiled pizza boxes can go in the compost bin.

Oh, that's much better than just throwing them away (I was so bummed when I found out, myself). I'll try that, thanks!

I would advise checking your specific jurisdictions' regulations. I wouldn't guarantee everywhere could take them in compost.

#pipe

Dirtyboy wrote: »

3clipse new thready time.

You're not allowed to do this.

Use the old thread while it's open and only start a replacement after it's closed.

Brainleech

Stilts wrote: »

Jedoc wrote: »

For pizza boxes, corn plastic would actually be greatly preferable to cardboard! The main benefit of cardboard is that it recycles well, and cardboard is one of the most recycled consumer materials.

The main drawback of cardboard is that in terms of initial production, it has a larger carbon footprint than either plastic or bioplastic, and uses way more water pollution. Bioplastic doesn't recycle, but in one-time-use cases it's significantly greener than cardboard. Not only are pizza boxes non-recyclable due to their grease content, they can actually result in bins of perfectly recyclable cardboard being thrown out if people try to recycle too many of them along with their regular cardboard.

Unfortunately, I doubt bioplastic would stand up to hot greasy pizza very well unless you included so much petro plastic that most of the biodegradability was lost anyway.

I

Uh

Actually had no idea that you couldn't recycle pizza boxes

This is good to know

Because waste management does a large post it note when they pick up the garbage/recycle will say what you can put in the can and what you cannot
Or they used to do ads on tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPLt7gcwTwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWs_T4a_DAo
As from that is why I learned not to put pizza boxes in the blue container

3cl1ps3

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