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Limited-edition pizza box is available at select Papa John’s restaurants throughout Indianapolis beginning Friday, Nov. 8

Shifts and employees added to handle extra $2 million a year in box production

No pizza boxes in recycling?That’s what it says on the 40,000 recycling carts Grand Rapids sanitation officials hoped to finish distributing this week. But that’s not exactly what the city means.
It means if you’re a greenie who wants to recycle the empty pizza box that won’t fit into your trash can, you have to toss the greasy liner and scrape off any leftover cheese.The rather large label on the city’s new recycling carts repeats age-old requirements that even officials concede can be whittled to a finer point, especially for those serious about recycling.

If you only made a dollar a day, what kind of furniture would you buy? Maybe some cardboard furniture will do the trick for you. Yes, the billions of mud hut dwellers and college students alike, can find something to love about COMPACt, the cardboard furniture inside a pizza box.

Over 3 billion pizzas are sold each year, and based on industry statistics, at least 1 billion of those are to-go orders or delivered. That adds up to approximately 220 million pounds of cardboard waste and most of that cardboard cannot be recycled because it has come in contact with food.