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[dragdeler]

They wouldn’t be able to recycle the cardboard anyway ‘cause of all the grease from the pizza.

Oh i didn't specify frozen pizza because I'm lazy, but it said frozen... Gosh I would hope restaurant pack their merchandise in first grade.... but you just made me have an unpleasant idea

[None]

lifeprotips, much like coolguides and dataisbeautiful, is pretty reliably and wholly garbage about conveying meaningful, truthful, or readable data.

But yeah, pizza boxes don't go in the recycling. Shit, for Americans, most of the recycling doesn't go for recycling. What a scam we were sold on recycling.

[Kagus]

...pizza boxes go in the recycling here. We just have a barrier layer of wax paper between the box and the pizza. Greasy paper goes in the bin, clean cardboard goes in the round-and-round.

Now, how much of it actually gets recycled is another matter, but that's at least the given routine.



In other news, at the fresh young age of 32, I have now finally learned of dishwasher salt. At this point I'm really starting to wonder if my parents gave me the wrong life training as a joke.

[MorleyDev]

Can pizza boxes be recycled? It's complicated.

[MorleyDev]

It's takeway pizza boxes that are the issue, since the cooked Pizza leaves a grease residue and those oily parts can't be recycled.

[Frumple]

In other news, at the fresh young age of 32, I have now finally learned of dishwasher salt. At this point I'm really starting to wonder if my parents gave me the wrong life training as a joke.

It... doesn't seem to be necessary unless you have particularly hard water, from a quick check (I had never heard of the stuff, never heard or seen anyone using it, quick look at local walmart stock says there's exactly one offering to sell the stuff on their shelves out of ~60 things meant for the same purpose, etc.). It's entirely likely they never used the stuff nor had need to.

In other words, if they did give you the wrong life training as a joke, it probably wasn't due to dishwasher salt

[hector13]

It’s presumably similar to the salt they use in water softeners, then?

I mean, I didn’t know of these things until recently either, and I’m older than you

[King Zultan]

You could always make fire starters from the greasy pizza boxes.

[scriver]

I'm the Fiyastata! Pizza Fiyastata!

[Great Order]

Three times in a row I've made vegetarian hoisin duck+veggies, only to find that the pancakes have gone mouldy well before the best-before date.

Might just have to look up how to make them myself, at least that way I won't get fucked over by a great big green-black splotch of fur running through the middle of the stack.

[bloop_bleep]

It’s presumably similar to the salt they use in water softeners, then?

I mean, I didn’t know of these things until recently either, and I’m older than you

Don't water softeners have an ion exchange resin? I doubt that would be in a powder form. Also most dish detergents nowadays are made to have soluble calcium salts which means they won't deposit limescale on your plates even if you have hard water.

[hector13]

It’s presumably similar to the salt they use in water softeners, then?

I mean, I didn’t know of these things until recently either, and I’m older than you

Don't water softeners have an ion exchange resin? I doubt that would be in a powder form. Also most dish detergents nowadays are made to have soluble calcium salts which means they won't deposit limescale on your plates even if you have hard water.

I worked in the plumbing department of a hardware store for a while and had people asking for water softener salt quite frequently.

[Kagus]

It is exactly like water softener salt, yes. The ion exchange resin is already in the system, and the added salt is what allows that resin to recharge and do its job.

But yeah, depleted salt stores would do a fair job of explaining why my dishwasher has recently started messing up glasses and cutlery after several months of leaving things spotless... Considering the filter looks fine.

[JoshuaFH]

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[scriver]

Soft water salt is why why men are so unmanly these days. I refuse to fall for it, in fact I made my water extra hard by putting rocks in my dishwasher