Well, that’s ultimately the deal which is why I take the soggy-them-down-in-the-sink method, but I’ve always wondered how else to do it since my town is so recycle-friendly but they hate pizza boxes due to (I’m now educated) their grease content.
I pay $2.00 per bag for rubbish and care not to pay an excise on pizza, but yeah, fill the bag with kitty litter around said soggy pizza box held in baton formation with a rubber band and I’ve got nothing left to cry about… bottom line.
Might as well snip the thread with that… but not before one more read through Billdo’s kung fu piece.
friggin’ hilarious!
tx, Peter
ps how do I put his cut-and-paste text (with his credit, of course) into this box? ???New and Slow me…
According to Peg Bracken, author of The I Hate To Cookbook, this is the great national conspiracy: It’s not cars that run on water that they are keeping from us, or the extra diamond fields that would make them worthless. No, the big conspiracy is that someone actually invented the self-destructing pizza box and it is being suppressed by the giant garbage hauler/landfill cartels.
A co-worker suggested that we all figure out a way to ‘refill’ pizza boxes. Goes like, say, 10% off the purchase if you fetch your own pie from the place and bring your own container. Yes… sanitary issues exist, but hell all we’re trying to do is re-invent an unsealed, undisposable, uninsulated situation. So if you send away to Wm Sonoma (high) or xmas tree shop (low) every household has a ceramic box with a tin outside… a big envelope as a household necessity. Pizza Joe cooks your pizza, slides it into a breathable paper envelope (made from the same material used for toilets in hotels, completely bio-degrade) … aw screw this… defeating the purpose of getting the pizza in the first place. No hassles. The hassle of disposing the box, come to think of it, is merely a tax on the fact that you just fed the whole fam for twelve bucks with no planning.
Huh? Where do you live that has such a silly policy and/or the willingness to count every bag at your curb? How do you get rid of a couch, stove, or (as someone else mentioned) a trashcan? I’m probably the first guy to speak OUT against any type of government service, but I have to say thank God my taxes pay for my garbage pickup without any picking-of-nits.