My city says don’t recycle pizza boxes or cardboard with oil on it. I get it, but where do you draw the line? Surely one speck of oil won’t ruin a whole batch of pulp, otherwise they would have no hope for a pure batch of paper. One out of 1 million people could ruin it each week. I saw a previous that discusses “why no pizza boxes” but it doesn’t explain how much grease is too much.
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It’s a very popular myth that cardboard pizza boxes are not recyclable. Think about it – if that was true, almost no load of cardboard would actually be recycled. The same goes for plastic and glass containers of olive oil, etc. Throw your pizza boxes in the recycling and don’t worry about it.
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