Wax Coated Boxes Recycled

Unlike the lamination used on other boxes though the plastic in wax coated cardboard can t be cleanly separated from the paper underneath.

Wax coated boxes recycled.

Jump to the recycling search to find a local option and make sure to break down the boxes just like cardboard. Wax coated cardboard isn t widely used in packaging for items available for purchase in stores. The greasy bottom part of the pizza box can be composted and the top of the pizza box can be recycled. The most common types of pe coated paper food containers you re likely to come across are shown below.

Frozen food boxes and other poly coated paperboard products however. Assuming the top is grease free paper napkins and towels. The fibers are too short to be recycled but they can be composted. Cartons these include milk juice soup broth and wine cartons and drink boxes.

So check these containers for a recycling symbol typically a triangle composed of three arrows as well as any instructions e g rinse and replace cap. Other cardboard items such as juice containers milk cartons and some produce boxes are coated with wax or similar substances. If your recycling program accepts wet strength or frozen food paperboard boxes it will most likely accept waxed cardboard boxes. These are 100 percent.

Similar to poly coated paperboard wax coated cardboard it is rarely recyclable. This often affects their ability to be recycled. One distinct difference is that wax coated cardboard may be compostable though only if the material s coating is made of a compostable wax such as soybean or bees wax not paraffin wax.