Back in 2008, Scott Weiner was on a trip to Israel and had a curious awakening in a restaurant.

I noticed that pizzeria had boxes on the wall.

It was this yellow, bright yellow with orange stripes, crazy pizza box.

Growing up in suburban New Jersey, all pizza boxes were flimsy, white, smudgy red ink.

And, you know, this was a yellow box. It just, it didn't seem legal. It just, it stuck with me.

And from then on, any time I saw a box that looked different from the ones I grew up with,

I would save them.

Pizza boxes became Scott Weiner's obsession.

He now holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest collection of them.

More than 1,800 in total.

Pizzerias from all over the world have sent him their packaging.

I have every continent.

I have a box from Antarctica.

Who makes pizza in Antarctica?

Apparently they have a commissary that has a pizza station. They sent me one with

maybe 30 or 40 signatures of scientists working at the McMurdo station.

Wiener's collection is a tribute to an everyday item that is often underappreciated by pizza

enjoyers across the country, which is almost all of us.

Americans consume billions of pizzas every year, around 23 pounds worth per person.

The majority of those pizzas are ordered for delivery or to go, and the boxes the pizzas

are transported in have to be carefully engineered

to uphold the integrity of the pies inside.

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