Pizza is one of the most popular foods in every corner of the world, even if its take-out box often leaves us wondering where it should be thrown away. The pizza container, if it is not dirty with food residue, should be thrown in the paper bin. But if tomato, mozzarella and oil have stained it, there are two other ways to take for proper waste separation.
Pizza: the food that has a dense circle of admirers all over the world, who love it in its basic version or with gourmet ingredients on top. But whatever the favorite flavor, take-away pizzas often leave everyone with a Hamlet-like doubt to resolve. Yes, the pizza boxwhere does it go?
The problem also arises in a second case, that is when we are dealing with frozen pizzas, with a box made of material that looks like paper but in fact shows a waterproof layer. If the corrugated cardboard is in fact paper for all intents and purposes, the polythene cardboard Instead, it has a plasticized layer, which makes everything more complicated.
And you will excuse us for the triple rhyming couplet, between polythene, plasticized and complicated. But the crux of the matter is that making the correct waste separation in these cases it is not a given. It is not a given both for the starting materials of the box that holds the pizza, and for any stains and food residues that may drip on top.
Below we will see how and where to throw away the pizza box without racking our brains. But the suggestion is always the same, in case any doubt arises, to check the disposal on the website of your municipality of residence.
Pizza cardboard: what is it made of?
The take-away pizza box is usually made of paper and should also have its composition written somewhere. It is usually all paper materialwhich means that it can be thrown, if there are no traces of food stuck to it, in the paper bin.
On the contrary, polythene or laminated cardboard make up the containers of many foods that are generally stored in the freezer. Contact with ice and water could in fact alter the quality and healthiness of foods, but these materials act as a shield to avoid compromises.
But, unlike traditional cartoon, the polythene and laminate (tetrapak is a classic example) cannot be thrown away with paper. However, if your municipality of residence says otherwise, you can put them in the blue bin together with other paper materials. In this case, the correct separation takes place at the paper mill.
If instead the indications on the waste sorting of these multi materials are different, domestic disposal must be done by throwing them in the dry waste.
Where to throw away pizza boxes
In case the take-away pizza box is made in 100% on the chart and has no traces of oil, mozzarella or other foods, you can break it, fold it and throw it in the blue paper bin. If the bottom is stained and the lid is clean, you can cut them and throw the second one in the paper. In this way you can differentiate at least in part.
If the cardboard is stained, there are two possible routes, but once again the correct disposal is determined by the indications of your municipality, available on the reference site. In fact, there are cities where stained paper can be thrown in the organic waste, with the peels of vegetables and fruit or table scraps.
But if this type of disposal is not allowed, the way forward is to remove the bulk of the food waste and throw it in the organic waste, and instead throw the stained cardboard in the dry waste. The collection bin undifferentiated it is in fact the solution to adopt if disposal cannot be carried out in any other way.
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Source: www.greenstyle.it
