Pizza boxes disposal in Oregon
What Oregon says to do with pizza boxes, read off Oregon DEQ's own page on 2026-08-19.
Oregon's Uniform Statewide Collection List puts clean pizza boxes with no wax coating in the curbside cart alongside corrugated cardboard — empty and dry the box and flatten it — and local governments began collecting to that list on July 1, 2025. Read from Oregon DEQ · checked 2026-08-19
Never put the box in the bin with food or the liner still in it — pizza boxes are "IN" the recycling bin only if there is no food or liners (Connecticut DEEP).
Where to take it
Your county program is listed in Oregon DEQ's county program directory.
The program is Recycling Acceptance Lists under the Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act. The statute Oregon cites is ORS 459A.914.
Counties differ — verify with your local program.
All 50 states: Can you recycle pizza boxes? — the federal baseline, what happens to it, and every state's rule with the page it was read from.