ORLANDO, Fla. — No matter how you slice it, pizza boxes never fit into trash cans properly -- but the city of Orlando may have come up with a solution.
The city has created a pilot program that is cleaning up the streets of downtown Orlando of pizza boxes.
In August, the city installed five of trash bins that accommodate the size of a pizza box near pizza shops downtown.
Dominique Greco said the bins are collecting roughly 300 boxes a week.
The challenge with the boxes is they can’t be recycled because of everything that gets left inside the box, mainly grease and cheese. For now, the boxes are being sent to the landfill.
“We are looking for a vendor that might be able to salvage some of the cardboard from these pizza boxes and recycle a good component of them,” Greco said.
The project is considered a pilot, but there are already plans to expand it to get the boxes in the bins and off the streets.
The receptacles, which cost the city around $6,000, are emptied by the downtown clean team.
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