"I think teaching people that they can simply eat pizza and do something good for the earth...that's the key," said Sruti Desai.
Desai is Co-chair of the Bordentown City Green Team, which introduced the first pizza box composting program in New Jersey last year.
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Just outside of Trenton, the "birthplace of tomato pie," Bordentown City has a pizza scene that launched this program into a success. They have since collected thousands of pizza boxes.
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"We use them for weed suppression and for building new beds out in the field," said Gabriel Siciliano, owner of Abe's Acres Farm.
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