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div class=image style=float:right;padding-left:8px;img alt=Green Box height=234 src=http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/daily_green_news/daily_green_news-434788886-1241630296.jpg?ymYp1NBD74Ak0_9W width=300//divpThink melted mozzarella, tasty toppings, and crust with just the rightbr /amount of crisp. There’s no denying that the delivery or take-home pizza isbr /a crowd pleaser in most homes and businesses, whether you break bread withbr /carnivores, vegetarians or vegans, or crave extra sauce or a simple whitebr /pie. /ppUnfortunately, dealing with used cardboard pizza boxes isn’t much fun. They don’t fit easily in trash and recycle bins, and many recyclers
don’t accept them because of the food residue or awkward size. Cardboard pizza boxes
aren’t necessarily easy to break down, and they can leak grease onto
your floors or on your clothes. /ppAs every college student knows, used pizza boxes can quickly pile up. In fact, if you stacked up the three billion pizza boxes used in the U.S. each
year, you’d reach the moon within two years, according to the green design firm — a href=http://www.ecoincorporated.com/ecoincorporated.com/Home.htmlEnvironmentally Conscious Organization, Inc./a (eco for short) — that came up with a so-simple-it’s-genius solution. The Green Box looks like a standard cardboard pizza box that comes pre-perforated./pbr /br /img alt=image name height=234 src=http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/daily_green_news/daily_green_news-435811939-1241630363.jpg?ymbq1NBDYxAD6gyl width=300/br /br /pWhen your pizza arrives, you can easily tear the top of the box into fourbr /makeshift disposable plates. The bottom of the box is also perforated on thebr /edges and down the middle, so you can easily fold that part into a smallbr /container that fits a few slices — giving you a convenient place to storebr /leftovers in your fridge, without having to juggle around everything else.br /In fact, the leftover box is a pinch less than half the size of a full pizzabr /box. /pbr /br /img alt=image name height=234 src=http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/daily_green_news/daily_green_news-161855564-1241630443.jpg?ymrr1NBD4_lq.rDI width=300/br /br /pAnd, perhaps the best part of this patented invention is the fact thatbr /the Green Box is made from 100% a href=http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/upcycled-cardboard-ar%20t-47032004?link=embdom=yah_greensrc=syncon=artmag=tdgrecycled cardboard/a. There is also the option for a vegetable-based coating. /ppOur goal is to increase the functionality of packaging and to eliminatebr /or reduce follow-on waste [additional materials like tin foil, plastic bagsbr /or plastic wrap], eco inc.’s Jennifer Wright recently explained about thebr /Green Box, her company’s first product. Since consumers have a built-inbr /storage device for any leftovers, they won’t need to fool with extrabr /materials. And since the box can become handy serving plates, that will cutbr /down on water and energy needed for dish washing. /ppWright — one of three partners at eco inc. — explains that since thebr /Green Box is made out of standard pizza box material, there is no need forbr /retooling factories or changing the way pizza shops do business. In fact,br /she says that the boxes can be purchased for the same price as — orbr /possibly less than — conventional boxes, since according to Wright thebr /recycled fiber needed to make them costs less. /ppThe Green Box can also be used as marketing for pizza shops, who can toutbr /the greener footprint, as well as innovative packaging and (at least for abr /while) novelty. /ppAccording to Wright the Green Box is getting a wide roll out acrossbr /America over the next few weeks. There’s been interest from all over, andbr /it’s really exciting, Wright told a href=http://www.thedailygreen.com?link=embdom=yah_greensrc=syncon=artmag=tdgThe Daily Green/a. She said consumersbr /should look for them in their local pizza shops over the coming months, andbr /to ask businesses to consider carrying them if they don’t./pembed allownetworking=internal allowscriptaccess=never type=application/x-shockwave-flash src=http://www.youtube.com/v/gQBjJjpkjl0color1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfeature=player_embeddedfs=1 allowfullscreen=true width=425 height=344/embedembed allownetworking=internal allowscriptaccess=never type=application/x-shockwave-flash src=http://www.youtube.com/v/OMDmp-cR4I0color1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfeature=player_embeddedfs=1 allowfullscreen=true width=425 height=344/embedbr /br /strongMore from The Daily Green/strongbr /a href=http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/upcycled-cardboard-ar%20t-47032004?link=reldom=yah_greensrc=syncon=artmag=tdgbr /Amazing Things Made from Recycled Cardboard/abr /br /a href=http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/vodka-uses-460424?link=reld%20om=yah_greensrc=syncon=artmag=tdg10 Surprising Uses for Vodka/abr /br /a href=http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/recycling-symbols-plastics-4%2060321?link=reldom=yah_greensrc=syncon=artmag=tdgWhat Do Recycling Symbols Really Mean?/abr /a href=http://www.thedailygreen.com/green-homes/latest/save-money-megaflip?link=rel%20dom=yah_greensrc=syncon=artmag=tdgbr /30+ Simple Ways to Save Money/abr /br /a href=http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/super-foods-44030408?li%20nk=reldom=yah_greensrc=syncon=artmag=tdgThe 7 Super Foods You Should Be Eating/abr /