Get a piece of this: Adams Morgan’s new pizza box bins

Anyone who has ever stayed at Adams Morgan on the weekend knows about Jumbo Slice Pizza. After a night on the town, people can walk anywhere along 18th St. NW to eat a giant slice of pie.

But after you’ve eaten the last bite, all you’re left with is the jumbo pizza box. The square boxes were piled up, pushed and shoved into the trash cans until nothing could fit in them anymore.

People then piled them on top, which is why the garbage cans at Adams Morgan sometimes looked like a version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The pizza boxes would then fall over everywhere, clogging up the sidewalk and creating a new habitat for rats.

The Adams Morgan Partnership BID said they had a solution.

“We purchased two of the pizza box trash cans to replace the two BIG BELLY trash cans that were past their useful life,” Kristen Barden, executive director of Adams Morgan Partnership BID, told WTOP.

The two trash cans are located at 18th and Belmont and near the mid-block crosswalk in the 2400 block of 18th Street NW.

“Pizza boxes don’t fit well in the Victor Stanley cans that the Department of Public Works provides on the street, and the BIG BELLY containers didn’t work particularly well for them either. Although they are not rat-proof, this is a better organizational solution than pizza boxes,” Barden said. “Our cleaning team empties all trash and recycling bins every day so we can better organize pizza boxes for pickup.”

Someone lives above the Jumbo Pizza Mart and is very happy about the new trash cans.

“You look good. They are good for the environment,” Muhammad said.

He told WTOP he saw a lot of pizza boxes on the sidewalk over the weekend.

“You can’t actually count them. Like almost 1,000,” Muhammad said.

Not only the residents but also the employees of local businesses are happy about the new garbage cans.

“It’s amazing. I think this is a great idea,” said Jeronimo Betancur, manager of Andy’s Pizza. “Our orders are mostly for delivery, we don’t make a lot of mess with the boxes, but there are other stores that offer takeaway pizza boxes and usually on a Friday or Saturday the store would be full of pizza boxes everywhere.”

Betancur told WTOP that he believes the new trash cans will solve many problems.

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