| I live in New Haven and saw on our handy recycling flyer [0] that pizza boxes are listed, with no caveat, as being a single stream curbside recyclable item. Which is great, because pizza is a whole thing in this town. We eat a lot of it. So I was surprised to learn, if you go poking around and find the RecycleCT website [1] and hover your mouse over the pizza box, up pops this note. "No food residue. No liner." Never in my life have I had a pizza box without grease soaked through it. Maybe they've just given up, and knowing it won't be recycled anyway, they don't bother to make a fuss about what can go in the bin? Is this flyer just there to make us feel better about our waste? Because otherwise that's a pretty major note to forget to mention. Pizza boxes are recyclable, just as long as there's never been any pizza in it. [0] https://www.newhavenct.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?b... [1] https://www.recyclect.com |
You might find that greasy, unlaminated cardboard is recyclable in the food/organic waste stream, as it is here in London.