It’s no secret that pizza boxes are often awkward little bitches – too big to put in the trash and often recyclers don’t accept them because of the food residue or size. With over 3 billion pizza’s being consumed in this country each year, it’s obvious a more eco-friendly pizza box is sorely needed.

A company named Environmentally Concious Organization is looking to fix all that, inventing the “Green Box,” a revamped box that comes pre-perforated. The Green Box breaks down easily into convenient serving plates, eliminating the need for disposable serving plates. The remainder of the box converts easily into a storage container for leftovers, eliminating the need for cumbersome and environmentally unfriendly plastic wrap, aluminum foil or plastic bags to store the left over pizza in the refrigerator.

An industrial design student in the U.K. has built a cheap, ecological transport – a cardboard bike. He designed the bike after learning that a bicycle is stolen every 71 seconds, so he decided to make a bike inexpensive enough that it wouldn’t matter if it got stolen. The prototype is made almost entirely from recyclable and recycled materials, using interchangeable mechanical parts. It costs about $30 to make. The body of the bike is environmentally-friendly and biodegradable industrial cardboard used in constructing particle boarding. Problems? Only if it rains!