{"id":136623,"date":"2022-02-24T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=136623"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:59:48","slug":"special-pizza-box-receptacles-prevent-cramming-and-poorly-separated-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/02\/24\/special-pizza-box-receptacles-prevent-cramming-and-poorly-separated-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Special pizza box receptacles prevent cramming and poorly separated recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a week since special receptacles were placed in the University Library and the Polak building. They mean you no longer have to stuff your empty pizza boxes into the small waste bins.<\/p>\n

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There is a pizza box waste bin on every floor of the University Library and the Polak Building.<\/span><\/p>

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It was a University Library employee, Ineke van der Kramer, who came up with the idea. She regularly sees students eating pizza while they are studying in the library, and she noticed that the empty pizza boxes didn\u2019t fit in the waste bins. People end up cramming them in or piling them up, and there\u2019s no room left for other waste.<\/p>\n

Grease and food residue<\/h2>

\u201cWhen students are busy studying for their exams, they sometimes order food, and that can often include pizza,\u201d explains Van der Kramer. \u201cI saw such pizza box receptacles in the University Library in Nijmegen, and I thought they would be an excellent solution to all the empty pizza boxes on our campus. They are also a great way of keeping recycling separate. Pizza boxes don\u2019t belong in the paper bin at all because of all the grease and food residue left in them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pizza box receptacles are in the University Library and the Polak building, because this is where most students study and eat pizzas. You\u2019ll find one on each floor. Van de Kramer says that if they prove successful, they will be placed in other buildings too.<\/p>\n

\u2018It can make a difference\u2019<\/h2>

IBCoM students Aniela Jewtuch and Emma Zadro believe the pizza box receptacles are a very good idea. Emma: \u201cTo be honest, I haven\u2019t seen the new bins yet, but I think they are a nifty idea, especially as they make it easier to keep recycling separate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aniela herself has occasionally ordered meals while studying on campus. \u201cIt is a small idea, but it can make a big difference. I think it\u2019s great that the university thinks about this kind of thing and that it is trying to tackle environmental problems step by step.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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