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WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 6 天前

The trash cans in Amsterdam have pizza slots

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The trash cans in Amsterdam have pizza slots

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WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 6 天前
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  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 天前

    I was going to laugh at ‘pizza box’ being in English, but apparently the Dutch for ‘pizza box’ is ‘pizza box.’

    • Ftumch@lemmy.today
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      Actually it’s “pizzadoos”.

      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 天前

        Automated translation deceives me once again!

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          The explanation for why it’s in English is likely that it would be foreigners eating pizza in the park. Amsterdammers would probably just take it home to eat.

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            Amsterdammers will have pizza delivered bij thuisbezord.nl. This is definately for tourists in places like Vondelpark.

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              Yeah, Vondelpark is also the only place I saw them (and the picture looks like it too), but I am just a tourist too (albeit a frequent one).

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          6 天前

          Yo tengo el gato los pantalones

          • Bilb!@lemmy.ml
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            5 天前

            Blue streak

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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        5 天前

        This is for the well-behaved, for the others, it’s “pizzadonts”.

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          Good one, but it’s actually pronounced like “pizza dose”. This is of course because they contain a single dose of pizza.

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      Funny, here in Germany, it’s FLACHKUCHENSCHACHTEL.

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    6 天前

    Dutch civil engineering is so legit lol.

  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world
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    6 天前

    The big slot is obviously for novelty sized currency coins.

    • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
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      6 天前

      Nah I use those as weights

    • RogueBanana@piefed.zip
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      5 天前

      The one in the middle? That’s a very fat coin.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 天前

      gym weights

  • Ninja876@lemmy.world
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    Also you cannot recycle pizza boxes. This was one of the reasons why China started refusing cardboard from the US for recycling. The grease screws up the recycling process and basically the batch is ruined.

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      That’s a pretty old rule. Last decade or so most recycling programs support and encourage pizza box recycling. Check with your local center.

      • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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        “No food contact” in my area. Clean cardboard only.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          do you… not recycle any food packaging??

          • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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            I recycle any food packaging my local recycling facility permits.

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            I mean if the recyclers state “no food contact” I’m assuming yes… Heck are they supposed to do

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          Usually my pizza comes on wax paper or the like, and the box is either grease free or close enough (like a tiny spot or two).

          Or it’s frozen/refrigerated, and wrapped on plastic, so, again, the box goes in recycle.

          I don’t put soiled things in recycle, but you can’t tell, cause it rains often and everything ends up looking fucked.

          • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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            In my locale, take-out pizza is usually provided directly on the interior surface of the pizza box, and so any grease spilling between slices or over the sides (garlic butter sauce on the crust dripping over the edge of the crust, for example) lands directly on the box.

    • Cyril Strobe@sh.itjust.works
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      Pizza boxes are technically recyclable, it’s just that they have to be recycled differently to other recyclable products due to the food particulates left behind on the boxes, and also other recyclable products cannot be contaminated by the same food particulates, hence why they likely have a separate section for pizza boxes.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      That rule varies by location. Some facilities can handle pizza boxes, but not all of them can. It’s best to call your local facility to make sure.

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      I find this hard to believe, but I’ve also done zero research. I have, however, dropped off many old pizza boxes at various places, and they always accept them for recycling. Maybe it’s just more expensive and labor-intensive, but I doubt it’s impossible…

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      And they literally put it in the box, telling me to recycle it.

    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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      Where I live we’re now supposed to put pizza boxes in the yard waste/civic compost bin

    • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Maybe the special slot allows them easy separation and then they burn it.

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    How is the most American thing I’ve ever seen actually Dutch?

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    Always in the rear?

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      As a Norwegian, that’s what I read, “alltid inn bak”.

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        deleted by creator

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      That’s a good false-friend. Bak apparently means “bin” in Dutch.

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        To a norwegian, dutch is a bit like trying to interpret a very, very drunk person. You think you get the gist of what they’re saying but you’re just not entirely sure.

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          Yep, my Swedish brain would walk around that container looking for the special hole for garbage, and then realizing all those holes go to the same place.

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    I love good design.

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    Need these in [insert region whose local pizza you hate].

  • 87Six@lemmy.zip
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    Can’t people just… Smush the boxes in? Lol

  • ragas@lemmy.ml
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    This looks exactly like the speed cameras where I live. So I thought this was some kind of civil disobiedience post.

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      Came here to say that

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    Who wants to bet someone took a big pizza box, folded it in half, and tried to fit it in the main chute, but it got stuck?

    Then they added in the pizza slot for the pizza sluts.

    • Frosty@pawb.social
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      TIL - There’s actually a pizza joint in Florida US called Pizza Slut XD https://www.pizzaslut.biz/

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        in Florida

        Of course

        Orlando’s Best Mobile Sourdough Pizza Catering, Parties, Pop ups, Food Events, and More!

        Based out of Orlando, FL - Serving Central Florida and Beyond!

        Well, shit! They’re local! How about that?

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    There just be a lot of Domino’s pizzas there. I get it

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      Domino’s and New York Pizza. In case you accidentally bought a cardboard pizza there, now you can just throw it away without issue.

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    are pizza boxes made out of unfoldable materials over there?

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      It could be to separe the greasy box with clean cardboard/paper

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        But it looks like it all goes into the same place.

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          They can have different bags

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            But that’s not this. You can see the opening on the other side.

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              Oh yeah i didn’t see, my bad

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      made out of metal probably.

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    deleted by creator

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    Wtf

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