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Can pizza boxes be recycled?
Clean, dry cardboard sections are often recyclable, while heavily greasy or food-soiled sections may need to be removed or placed in another local stream.
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The answer
A pizza box is not automatically recyclable or non-recyclable as a whole. Tear away clean cardboard if your service accepts it. Remove leftover food, liners and plastic accessories. The greasy base may be rejected by paper recycling in some programmes because food and oil reduce fibre quality.
Some local organic-waste programmes accept food-soiled paper, while others do not. The local rule decides the final route.
What to do
- Remove food and non-cardboard inserts.
- Separate clean cardboard from heavily soiled sections when possible.
- Check whether the soiled portion belongs in residual or organics locally.
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