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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by tuatoru on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:24AM (#24715774)
Pizza boxes?

A lot of paper is coated in clays, waxes, or plastics, and many inks might make paper unsuitable for use in food grade products like pizza boxes, without heavy processing.

Shipping boxes, maybe. If the structural properties of the resulting board are OK.

But most post-consumer paper is unusable for one reason or another. Recycling of industrial packaging is a slightly different story.

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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by twic on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:29AM (#24717115)
Are New York pizza boxes food grade? Most New York pizza isn't even food grade.
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Re:Recycling was a lie to sell more plastic, recycling indus... by luckman212 on Friday October 09, 2020 @08:51PM (#24735846)
Maybe not that .99c-a-slice garbage but there are some damn good pies to be had here in NYC for sure! Lucali, Totonno's, Joe's... some of the best you will ever have.
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