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Tue, May 05 2009 at 8:34 PM

Enter your comments hereThank you so much for answering me! My teacher says none of the students got an answer, but guess what?! Now I do - I really appreciate it very, very much! It is so nice to know that someone out there listens to teenagers and cares! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 Ashleigh :-)

Pizza Box Lids can be recycled!!!!

Thu, Apr 16 2009 at 12:25 PM

Posted By Leslie - Mon, Mar 16 2009 at 2:09 AM EST

You're totally wrong about recycling pizza boxes. By saying so, millions will end up in landfills even though parts of them can be recycled. Instead of saying something stupid like "pizza boxes can't be recycled", my city prints a pamphlet with reasonable advice telling residents to tear off the top half of the box, where the logo is since that is usually not contaminated by food. So by telling people to throw out the whole box, there are probably lots of paper being discarded that otherwise could have been recycled. Before you say dumb things, please do research first. If my my city recycling program could think up the idea of recycling the lid of the box, why can't you? You probably have a lot of readers who follow your advice so next time, please try to avoid saying dumb things especially when they impact out environment.

Dumb things, not said.

Thu, Apr 16 2009 at 12:22 PM

Leslie,

Your concern for recycling is refreshing. About saying "dumb things": had I said "pizza boxes can't be recycled" or "throw out the whole thing" I'd agree with you. But this is what I said:

• You can always tear out the oily, cheesy parts of the pizza box and recycle the rest of the box. Don't stop there: Even the oily, cheesy part of your pizza box need not fill the landfill.

• Compost it. If you compost at home, throw it in the pile (smaller, torn pieces, will decompose faster). If not, add it into the "yard trimmings" bin and it will be composted at the municipal level.

• That goes for paper towels and napkins, too. And toilet paper rolls. And tissue. And food scraps.

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