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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by Kednicma on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:32PM (#24715431)
And lest this sound myopic! At least in Portland, the pizza boxes can be put into composting bins, including the plant-waste bins that we put out next to garbage bins.

So the paper does, eventually, go to the landfill and become sequestered in the typical fashion.

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by floatingatoll on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:30AM (#24715814)
How much carbon does feeding the pizza boxes to the composting process release into the air, as a percentage of total carbon present in the pizza boxes at rest (ignoring construction costs)?
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by jsmeaton on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:29AM (#24715799)
I’ve only just started doing this - but my understanding is that the lids go into compost. The bottoms shouldn’t because the grease turns to a yuck sludge in compost bins.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by popinman322 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:10AM (#24716370)
Do you mean compost collection bins, or home composting bins?

If you live in an area that collects material for industrial composting you should 100% put the grease coated parts of the cardboard in your compost collection bin.

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by jsmeaton on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:11AM (#24717024)
Yes sorry I’m talking about home composting.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by Kednicma on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:29AM (#24720036)
It varies by area. Here's the guidelines for Portland [0]; it seems that "Home" "FOOD SCRAPS" bins may have pizza boxes in them, as long as wax paper and other inserts are removed. Incidentally, mentally traversing the pizzerias I go to, I think that the only inserts that any of them add are pizza savers [1].

[0] https://www.portland.gov/bps/garbage-recycling/compost-what-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_saver

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