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If you are like me or a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, you probably love pizza. Pizzas are the world's most perfect food. Pizza, however, may not be the world's greenest food. Homemade pizza is pretty green, but homemade anything is usually green. Store-bought pizzas have to be kept cold in ecologically costly refrigeration units, and delivered pizza is a strain on the gasoline supply. But what of these horrible, greasy boxes that delivery pizza arrives in? What can we do with those? Here is what.
How to Reuse Your Pizza Boxes!
1. Pastry box. Line the box with wax paper. Put cake or cookies in the box. This is great for when your kids have to bring snacks to class or you have to bring snacks to work.
2. Litter Boxes. Put the pizza box under your cat's litter box to catch any overflow. Eww.
3. Solar Oven. You can cook your next pizza in a solar oven pizza box. Pretty convenient, right? Line the bottom of the pizza box with foil. Start an incision one inch from the edge of the lid. Cut out three-fourths of the square, one-inch from the sides, leaving a flap on one side. Raise the flap. Cover the part facing the hole with foil. It will act as a reflector. Put the pizza in the hole. Put plastic laminate over the pizza hole. Point the opening and the reflector at the sun. Enjoy your pizza in about thirty minutes.
4. Store Photos. If the box isn't greasy, you can store photos or letters in pizza boxes.
5. Cement Molds. If you want uniform rectangles of cement, pizza boxes can be used as cement molds.
6. Drawer Dividers. Cut up the borders of the pizza box and make dividers for drawers.
