Waste not, want not. The pizza box

It’s sad but true that many Americans are oblivious to the sheer amount of garbage our daily eating habits produce. Take something as simple as a hamburger from McDonald’s. First there is the burger wrapper, then assuming the burger is carry-out, there is the paper bag. Inside the paper bag are several napkins and a ketchup packet or two.

That’s four items right there straight into the trash. Or take an in-home product like American cheese where not only is the entire block of cheese encased in plastic but each individual piece has its own plastic sleeves. We have plastic protecting plastic!

A more glaring example is a pizza-box. Since they are big, encumbering and don’t break down easily, people tend to notice that they are wasteful. That’s why Eco Incorporated invented the first environmentally-friendly pizza-box called the GreenBox.

Not only is it made from 100 percent recycled cardboard, the GreenBox does double-duty as plates and a storage container.

There are several other benefits to the GreenBox not mentioned in the video.