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Pizza boxes are made from corrugated cardboard.

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When is it recycled?

All clean Pizza boxes, like clean corrugated cardboards, are recycled.

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When is it not recycled?

When the box is soiled.

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Grease is hydrophobic, i.e. it does not mix with water. When the grease content reaches 20% of the box's mass, the grease will start to interfere with the fibre bondings and greatly reduce the paper strength of the end product.

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What now?

• Ask the shop to put a wax paper underneath the pizza, that way you can enjoy your pizza, throw your clean pizza box in the recycling bin and only throw the wax paper away.

• Ask the shop to cut up your pizza and package it in your container.

• Compost the soiled parts that will not be accepted for recycling.

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How to recycle?

• As long as the top part of the pizza box is still clean, tear it off, it will be accepted for recycling.

• Also flatten and put all your other cardboards from your online deliveries, etc., into your recycling bag.

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