Portland Pizza Box Compost

One green 64 gallon roll cart is included in your regular garbage service.

Portland pizza box compost.

This includes paper towels and napkins parchment paper paper plates coffee cups plastic lined papers to go boxes. Regional contractor s business license. The grease on the pizza box won t create any problems in your compost pile. Frozen pizza boxes belong in the garbage.

Yes pizza boxes are cardboard but the paper fibers cannot be separated from the oil during the manufacturing process that converts cardboard into paper pulp. All you have to do is remove any containers of seasoning or sauces and any plastic windows or pizza savers that little plastic triangular legged device that keeps your pizza from getting smashed on the boxes lid. You can just compost your pizza box. If you have a worm composter then you can use the cardboard as bedding for your compost your worms will love it.

In the city of portland you can toss pizza boxes in the food scraps bin. Otherwise they go in the garbage. However the small amount of residual grease on a pizza box shouldn t be a problem. That goes for any pizza delivery boxes from places all over portland.

Use your green curbside compost cart instead. A place for greasy pizza boxes. These items do not belong in your work compost. There are 12 different companies in portland that collect compost from the city s green bins.

The only problem is that the smell could attract animals so if that s a concern in your neighborhood you can bury the greasy. Cups to go boxes or other packaging labeled compostable biodegradable or made from plants no paper products. It s empowering to make less trash and it doesn t smell bad anymore because our. Composting options outside the portland metropolitan area.

Probably it is best to compost your pizza box in case your city doesn t accept them for recycling. Can you compost pizza boxes. Usually you don t want to put too much grease in with your compost. All the meat bones eggshells and dairy and even pizza boxes that came from your green bin.

Compost collection all portland single family households are now able to place all food scraps including meat and bones along with yard debris in their green portland composts roll carts. It will decompose just fine. If you re in need of compost services look no further than portland disposal recycling inc. Compost collection compost carts are serviced weekly.

No waxed cardboard pizza boxes plastic coated cardboard.