Green Box is an innovative pizza box that easily breaks down into 4 serving plates, while the remainder of the box transforms into a storage container for leftovers.
Made from a standard pizza blank, the Green Box requires no additional material and can therefore be produced at no additional manufacturing cost.
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kate
hmm i like :)
Jul 27th, 2009
Hsoj Spillihp
but i make plates out of the regular pizza boxes… wait… aww, i just realized how poor i am.
Jul 27th, 2009
T2
amazing
Jul 27th, 2009
sammi
oh this is great, cant wait for the next time i eat pizza…and is that mango lemanade in the fridge?
Jul 28th, 2009
April
I am impressed. I like it..
Jul 28th, 2009
yo
What’s the point?
Wouldn’t you still be using, and thus disposing of, the same amount of cardboard?
Jul 28th, 2009
Xtina.
Still a very cool idea, but I don’t see how it’s any greener than a regular pizza box. You still have to throw the whole thing out and the greasy cardboard cannot be recycled.
I suppose you can save the napkins, that you’ll probably need anyway…
Jul 28th, 2009
karlitta
Really nice, great idea/concept.
Jul 28th, 2009
Paul Sample
mmmmhh i’m hungry
Jul 28th, 2009
Soheil
ha?! what was that?!!! why?!! :) i don’t take my pizza to refrigerator, o eat all of that in one time
but I like it
Jul 28th, 2009
Joe
Greasy cardboard can be composted, though.
Jul 28th, 2009
tom
it’s greener because now there are no additional paper plates to throw out, or regular plates to wash.
Jul 28th, 2009
phillip
how is this any more “green” than using ceramic plates? this is a cool idea, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the environment.
Jul 28th, 2009
mr beans
this is like totally the most radical thingy ever
Jul 28th, 2009
Wax Doll
Simplistic approach to innovation.
Applaudable… Looking forward to see more nifty works :)
Jul 28th, 2009
Chris
This is definitely a greener way of eating pizza. If you use ceramic plates, you need to use water to wash them, along with soap or maybe you’ll put them in the dishwasher (same thing but on a greater scale). Either way, you are using less resources for that one meal. It may not be much when you look at a single use, but when you multiply that by a few million homes, it makes a big difference. Not to mention the left over containers you wont need to use (and wash) in order to store it.
Jul 28th, 2009
lily
i agree with chris, with the washing…and it saves space too!
Jul 28th, 2009
Karin L. Stewart
Best way to get a pizza home and if there IS a left over the greasy box can be recycled before you can’t recycle it! Nothing beats getting that pizza home warm and now having a way to store a leftover without using a baggie is great!
Jul 28th, 2009
Oscar
Using the cardboard box for storing ANY food is a bad idea.
Everything will taste of carton
Jul 28th, 2009
ridiculous
throw “green” in the name and the idea of breaking down a pizza box to eat on becomes breakthrough technology.
Jul 28th, 2009
Justin
Why don’t pizza places start using this NOW?! I really like the idea. And Oscar, normally when you order pizza what do you do with the leftovers? You close the box back up and stick it in the fridge. Or that’s how most people do it anyway. You could be different I don’t know. Regardless, the pizza tastes the same when you store it in the same box it came in and reheat it. Once again, I really like the idea of this box.
Jul 28th, 2009
Robert
I agree it is a good idea in theory but the reasoning that it is no more money to produce is flawed. Cardboard companies will charge more because it has more perforations which could cause additional steps in their process or at very least, retooling costs. Moreover this is just one size pizza box. There would be different sizes for different pizzas to which the size of the “plates” may not be as convenient or work with the number of slices on larger pizzas.
Jul 28th, 2009
anyonymous
“but i make plates out of the regular pizza boxes… wait… aww, i just realized how poor i am.”
Me too, buddy. Me too.
Jul 28th, 2009
Irene
ACTUALLY Xtina for your information we always recycle all our pizza boxes. they can 2 be recycled and like that other dude said they can be COMPOSTED. Ya hear that? RECYCLED AND COMPOSTED!!!!
Jul 28th, 2009
Kham Tran
Wow, a very impressive and innovative design.
Jul 28th, 2009
Tiffany
Irene, where do you live? Because where we live, you are NOT permitted to recycle containers that have touched food (except in the case of cans and bottles that have been washed out). Pizza boxes that have come in contact with greasy pizza would not be able to be recycled. Neither would any container from a take out place that had come in contact with food (such as Chinese food containers).
But for what it’s worth, I think this is an excellent concept.
Jul 28th, 2009
wayne
Wow! Great work :)
Jul 29th, 2009
Aaron
No additional cost except for the added perforations, which will increase the time required to make the box as well as possibly ad a new step to the manufacturing process.
Regardless, it’s a cool idea. Not really “green,” but it’s a good thinking regardless.
Saves on dishes, though. That’s good enough for any bachelor. Although when I was single, I rarely washed dishes. I just let the dog lick them off. :)
Jul 29th, 2009
Abby
Pizza boxes actually can be recycled in most places. I live in Southwest Florida.
Jul 29th, 2009
Donna Vitan
This is an awesome invention! I would like my Pizza box to be this awesome.
Jul 29th, 2009
superdit
Ummm I think cold pizza not really good
Jul 29th, 2009
Colbert
That’s not innovative!
That’s just making something that everybody does anyways easier!
Jul 29th, 2009
Joshthehappy
Robert: I used to work in a cardboard plant, it’s not that hard to add one or (or even five whatever) perforation cutter to the die. All pizza places should do this, if for nothing more than an advertising gimmick to get us earth conscious folk.
Jul 29th, 2009
paintbot
@ superdit
what!? cold pizza tastes reli nice!
cool concept, but if you hvae more than 4 people its not that great.
Jul 29th, 2009
Martin
Pointless
Jul 29th, 2009
Martin
Also, there is hardly enough room on each “plate” for one quarter of a pizza. I would imagine it would be quite messy, no?
Jul 29th, 2009
author
what a great idea, though i’m sure packaging costs would increase due to the perforations/die-cut.
Jul 29th, 2009
S
I love the irony in a special pizza container next to the box of SlimFast!
Jul 29th, 2009
TurboPunz
Why not just use the top of the Pizza box?
It’s not any less “green” than using an effing paper plate, because you have to throw out the cardboard plates anyway.
And why not just use a ceramic plate? Oh, because then there’s the whole minor scrubbing and soap thing.
Innovation Fail.
Jul 29th, 2009
Brandy
Love it!that’s an awesome idea. where do i sign to get them to make that!
Jul 29th, 2009
bsci2_
It’s obviously photoshopped. I can tell from the pixels, and because I’ve seen quite a few ’shoops in my life.
Jul 30th, 2009
r@e
awesome idea! not that i ever have left over pizza… but the half box would actually fit in my fridge. oh and please DO NOT recycle your cardboard! it’s much “greener” to compost cardboard and paper materials than to recycle them which costs more money and creates more toxins than it takes to make a new one!
Jul 30th, 2009
Irons
Where are the vent holes? Nobody like a soggy pizza.
In my area none of the towns take pizza boxes for recycling. Or any other grease laden paper product.
I have these other kind of plates that 100% reusable. They are a made of some kind of hardened earthen material. I’ve reused them several hundred times in 10 years.
Not amazing, not innovative, not “green”.
Jul 30th, 2009
Realist
Its probably good that most of your towns don’t recycle pizza boxes with grease on them. You probably shouldn’t recycle anyway. Its actually WAY “greener” to just throw away your trash then recycle it. There are VERY FEW products that would be greener when recycled.
Jul 30th, 2009
Jaime
This actually is green because as a few people have said, your not using extra paper plates or using water to clean. They have made it easier to use one product for 2 uses.
Furthermore, even if your area doesn’t take a greasy pizza box for recycling(mine does in Frisco, CO) you can EASILY compost it. And many people who try to live green have their own compost and use it for their own garden (cuts down on waste and carbon foot print, all very green).
Jul 30th, 2009
Jaime
I would also like to add, in response to realist, that you are right in the fact that recycling greasy cardboard takes a lot more energy so its not great, but it is NOT better to put it in the trash.
Putting compostable materials in the trash creates more toxic methane gases for the environment and is more harmful than driving you car for a year. Here are two articles that talk about the methane gases in landfills
http://www.terracycle.net/revolution_4.htm
http://www.epa.gov/methane/sources.html
Jul 30th, 2009
Josh
@ bsci2_
wtf are you talking about? Photoshopped? I guess they photoshopped the whole video too, eh?
Jul 30th, 2009
Haru
i love the composting thing. very cool
this is green because the phospherous in soap kills plants, the water is contaminated with filth, and who likes washing dises (dishwasher or not)
a perfect excuse to eat more pizza
if only its was required for places to have those, with personal logos, of course
Jul 30th, 2009
Shawnner
Another idea!!! Maybe we could shape it like a little god & worship it too. Everyone is so crazed on “green” that they forget this simply composts & doesn’t hurt a thing. Composting is far “greener” if you care to add that to all your hype. One last thought to smack against the wisdom being shared… mother earth will survive your composting cardboard, however, you are shortening your life eating greasy take-out.
Jul 30th, 2009
Shawnner
In other words… it’s not a bad idea… but get an effin grip. Power up your “green thinking caps” before you engage your “green wisdom portal”
Jul 30th, 2009
Vincent R. Parker
I think this is a really neat idea! :)
Jul 30th, 2009
raj
i really dont understand why more companies are using this?
Jul 30th, 2009
zenkill
I want to try some mango lemonade, sounds bombtastic!
Jul 31st, 2009
artemis
yeah I make plates out of the regular pizza boxes as well…but mango lemonade….mmmm…sounds reeeeeally nice!!!
Jul 31st, 2009
Kashif
Hey this is cool :D
Jul 31st, 2009
Rob
Pretty clever!
Jul 31st, 2009
maldor
I didn’t like it.
Jul 31st, 2009
Ribbonsandrust
I love any picture that has Slimfast in the same frame as pizza. Never mind the box!
Jul 31st, 2009
delere
I like it however the storage box for left overs tapers down and I would think that would squish the leftovers.
Jul 31st, 2009
Jubilee
why would you need a plate? everyone i know just holds onto their piece…wouldn’t wanna lose it y’know…
Aug 1st, 2009
dizzy1143
we are gonna need more then Eco friendly pizza boxes to save the planet, i like the idea though
Aug 1st, 2009
bsci2_
@ Josh
This is clearly photoshopped, zoom in and you can see the pixels as clear as day.. REAL THINGS DONT HAVE PIXELS!
Aug 2nd, 2009
Jick
Production cost is not determined by the amount of cardboard used.
How much time does it take to perforate the box? How much is a perforation machine? Will QC take longer?
Aug 2nd, 2009
Louis
hang on…how is this “saving the planet one pizza box at a time”?!?!? Use plates, wash them by hand, and re-cycle the bloody box!! How hard it is that….
Aug 2nd, 2009
dona
@ bsci2_
Real things don’t have pixels but pictures of real things taken with a digital camera do have pixels.
Aug 2nd, 2009
my name ;)
If you think about it this isnt green atall becuase when you buy pizza why use ceramic plates unless theres more than 2 people eating the pizza because you can just tear the lid of the box from the base and its just as effective as using plates
Aug 2nd, 2009
Mubashar Abrar
This is great!
Aug 3rd, 2009
Sherri
If you’ve never been on the road and ordered pizza, maybe you don’t get it, but I sure do. We have habitually made “Plates” by tearing the top of the box into two pieces, but when we’ve needed more plates, we’ve headed for the breakfast room for the styrofoam. This would be much handier. Also, no washing up.
Aug 3rd, 2009
Yarz
I don’t think it’s meant to be any greener. I just think it was supposed to save you the dishes so you don’t have to wash them.
Aug 3rd, 2009
Ricki
Too awesome – for someone who already uses the pizza box top for serving, it sure would be handy not to have it rip apart so easily for four people (rather than using paper plates because really, who uses ceramic when eating pizza?) – add on the fact that then you can store the leftover in a really tightly packed fridge (really good idea for dorms!) and then you can recyle the whole thing later too. Very cool – I’d love to see this come to use someday!
Aug 3rd, 2009
Kayla
I can see this green idea behind this.. but growing up, (with lots of family members) yes, we used the evil paper plates. But, I now live in a college town, we just bring the pizza in the living room (Still in the box) and just eat it out of that, so other than the handy fold down for smaller storage aspect of this, how is it different than what ppl do anyways? For dorms-good idea. generally speaking-not the best execution for something ‘green’.
Aug 3rd, 2009
Michael
Now you can eat like you’re homeless, even at home!
Aug 4th, 2009
Eugene
Whatever the manufacturing costs adds to the creation of the box. You could make a cutting forme that does the perforation as the box is die-cut. So it wouldn’t mean any more than getting a new Forme made (about €250 or so) and then run it through the machine. It would take the exact same amount of time and effort.
So it would be greener. And the cardboard is in smaller pieces, making it easier to dispose of. Nothing like having to flatten a box and tear it up because it doesn’t fit in the recycling area/bin. It would be neato for parties and less washing up, and that sloppy guy that you invite won’t have any excuses for not using a napkin/paper plate as it’s provided.
It’s a good concept.
Aug 4th, 2009
panda
It save water and energy too, because you wont have to do the dishes :)
Aug 4th, 2009
Kitteh
this is a very cool idea. although i do believe that the whole preferating thing will cost some money, although you could just cut the box with scissors.
Aug 4th, 2009
jim
while you still throw the entire thing out, causing it to seem the same economic impact, you do not waste paper plates or water for dishwashing. However i dont know if the added perforations would offset this. it seems like they wouldn’t.
Aug 5th, 2009
Some Dude I Know
I love pizza!
Aug 5th, 2009
Princess Peach
you crazy green people and the things you’ll do to save a branch of a tree.
Aug 6th, 2009
Chechu
Awesome! This is a easily method to save some space in your fridge. Creative
Aug 6th, 2009
fredburt
these guys were on the canadian tv show Dragons Den and were shot down by the panel. cutesy idea probably only used in a pinch.paper towel works just as well. as for the cynic who thinks it was photo shopped…ha ha ha, now there’s a conspiracy theory for ya
Aug 7th, 2009
DZRTJUL
Great idea! Very cleaver. I like it.
Aug 7th, 2009
Matthew Carpenter
As someone who typically gets his plates dirty when he orders pizza, this is great! Plus, it would be a lot easier to dispose of.
Aug 8th, 2009
cithalm
nice! no plates to wash and save room in the fridge!
Aug 8th, 2009
avisioncame
one of the best concept ideas i have seen so far on the web. I am surprised the major pizza companies haven’t picked up on this yet. Seems like a great selling point.
Aug 8th, 2009
Adam
Dude.
That’s frickin’ mango lemonade in the fridge.
Aug 8th, 2009
Jc
Good idea !!!
Aug 8th, 2009
Anon
The box is already being diecut to shape. There would be NO additional charges for the perforations. They would just add a couple of lines of perf to the already existing die. There would be no separate process required.
Aug 9th, 2009
aaa
I like it
Aug 9th, 2009
fishhook
Everyone one that said it wouldn’t cost anymore to make is right…
Everyone else, what is the point in recycling?
And why use any plate for pizza?
Aug 9th, 2009
mR oBvIoUs
YOU USE LESS PAPER PLATES GENIUSES…..THAT’S WHY IT’S GREENER
Aug 14th, 2009
Lacey
This idea is somewhat completely rediculous O.o maybe I am just not appreciating it enough or…….you know if you just used normal plates….you could wash them and still have them the next day ;)
Aug 16th, 2009
Lacey
I dig the mango lemonade! lol
Aug 16th, 2009
chloe
Me likes it :)
Aug 17th, 2009
aaron
Good and practical design, but doesn’t really maintain the freshness of the pizza.
Aug 20th, 2009
Scykei
There ARE advantages of this innovation…
1) Save space
2) No need to was dishes since cardboard are plates?
3) Looks cool
Aug 27th, 2009
RatFink
Too bad the perferations on the top will compromise the box allowing the top to easily fold into the pizza when multiple pizzas are stacked. I think the trips, boxes, and pizzas reqired to replace pizzas damaged by the top caving it on them would likely do far more damage to the environment then people using paper plates.
Aug 30th, 2009
canvas
cool design, i usually just tear the box in bits and eat off that, cant help thinking its something that didnt really need making.
Sep 3rd, 2009
dan
It’s not that green.
Feb 4th, 2010
Mang Lemo
I wish the video was more about how awesome mango lemonade is, and less about eating ghetto cold ass pizza.
Feb 12th, 2010
Michael Bennett
efficient, effective, even elegant. I like it. From now on when I buy pizza I’ll just cut the box this way and give it to my friends.
Feb 13th, 2010
BonBon
When are the chain pizza companies going to adopt this concept? This is brilliant!! No plates thus no dishes to wash or paper plates to throw away, saves space in the frige for leftovers and easier to bring leftovers to work.
Feb 16th, 2010
ksjrh4
its greener than ceramic because of the chemicals you use while washing it.
Feb 16th, 2010
BillyBobyourmz
OMG Mango Lemonade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 8th, 2010
Lounda
Why cant they do somthing like this for soda bottles, like make the empty bottle fold into cups or something
Mar 8th, 2010
Kristy
I love pizza.
I love trees.
I love this idea:)
Mar 14th, 2010
Todd
As neat an idea as this is, it is NOT green. When grease hits a pizza box, it is NO LONGER RECYCLABLE and goes straight to a landfill. Ask any waste management/disposal facility that recycles. The grease ruins the recycled cardboard slurry and therefore has to be thrown in a landfill. This product simply spreads MORE GREASE over the box making it LESS RECYCLABLE! If you want a real green solution, go to http://www.flatpak.net. They have a 100% biocompostable pizza tray and biodegradable/recyclable plastic bag system that is 100% GREEN! The tray is made from 100% sugar cane fiber and turns into compost/mulch in 9 months. Grease or not, it doesn’t matter. The bag has a biodegradable additive that if it doesn’t get recycled, it will degrade within 3 years. NOTHING sticks to the plastic material so grease is not an issue in recycling there. The green box is neat but NOT GREEN! Sorry.
May 3rd, 2010
Kirk
I have to disagree with Todd. I believe he may be trying to push his own product on the basis it can be composted. So can cardboard! Also… even if it does go straight to landfill; it still saves water and reduces the use of detergents. I’d say that’s pretty green!!
May 28th, 2010
DylanJackson
Sorry I am going to use dishes to eat with, and cutlery, when I am finished I will wash them in water, and I will use soap…then I will dry them. Then I will wait till I am hungry again and I will repeat.
Get a hold of yourselves.
Jun 4th, 2010
Earl
i agree dylanjackson, doi
Jun 4th, 2010
Betty
Sometimes the simplest things are the most brilliant. Kudos!
Jun 4th, 2010
Betty
I think the idea behind the box is so that people dont use paper plates…some people hate to do dishes or they order pizza when dishes are not available. This way the box gives you plates without having to use more paper plates. Get it?
Jun 4th, 2010
aline
It works because you don´t need to use any kind of plate, not disposable or regular, you save water and money!
Jun 4th, 2010
Lionel
Sadly this idea has generated so much hot air that it cannot possibly be a green idea!
Jul 14th, 2010
Cynical Genius
Whoever invented this useless product seems to have overlooked the obvious… I have yet to discover this mysterious compound called “leftover pizza” when a single pizza is served to four people.
Nov 15th, 2010
Lo
I already do this with my pizza box. It actually takes more energy to put in the perforated edges than it does for me to tear the box myself.
Feb 4th, 2011
Dale
I work at a popular pizza place near a state park and we’re always being asked for paper plates so they can share it on a picnic or whatever…
We don’t offer plates to customers for environmental as well as storage reasons, so this is a great idea!
I’ve actually played with this in my head before and it’s really cool to see it exists…
The bottom storage compartment is just takin’ it to the limit!
Great work!
Mar 1st, 2011
stu
whats wrong with using plates? you wouldn’t fill a sink to wash one plate anyway.
plus, the cardboard will go mushy while you’re pizzas on it ;)
Mar 17th, 2011
Em
At first look I liked this as an idea, but on a small bit of reflection I realise two things
a) I work at Domino’s, and (at least where I work) when we old the boxes we’re standing, and I personally press the box against my torso to aid in folding the existing perforations to create the box. Adding these perforations potentially would make folding more difficult
b) Maybe it’s just because I’m a student, but generally if you’ve ordered pizza don’t you just eat it out of the box anyway? I’ve never used a plate for take out pizza
May 21st, 2011
kidspice
I work at Whole Foods Market. This is what we use. Regardless of the potential fails, I think it is pretty creative and fun for kids. Makes taking the pizza to the ball fields civilized.
Jun 5th, 2011
blahblam
I think the point here is to save plates?
Jun 18th, 2011
jay
hokay. this isn’t a GREEN idea, but it IS new and interesting and convenient, especially for eating outdoors/on the run. but what you all say about recycling really irks me. you live in such a backwards country. can’t recycle this, might aswell put that in landfill etc etc. come to new zealand. we take recycling and composting to a whole new level. and as for landfill, i hop you are proud to ruin such a beautiful earth with your wasteful ways. congrats to whoever thought of this, i think it is magnificent.
Feb 23rd, 2012
Sarah
Leftover… pizza? Does not compute.
Jul 19th, 2012
Adam DeLuca
Hello,
I am wondering if this idea is being used? I would like to get in contact with the individual who thought of this design.
Dec 28th, 2012