"About half of NYC's recycled paper gets turned into pizza boxes." That's not what the linked article says: "The other 50 percent of the city’s paper waste is

"About half of NYC's recycled paper gets turned into pizza boxes." That's not what the linked article says: "The other 50 percent of the city’s paper waste is transferred to Pratt Industries’ paper mill on Staten Island, were much of the city’s waste paper is recycled into pizza boxes." It doesn't say how much of the paper waste going into that mill is actually recycled, and it doesn't say how much of the portion that's recycled is recycled into pizza boxes.