| Cardboard boxes are extremely easy to recycle | | | | that will collect containers full of cardboard boxes |
| and minimise their effects on the environment. | | | | and pay you for them. The corrugated cardboard |
| The best form of recycling is reuse, often once | | | | companies then use these recycled cardboard |
| the cardboard box has finished its job of | | | | boxes as the input fibre instead of new trees and |
| successfully transporting its contents to its | | | | currently in the UK get over 70% of their 2 million |
| destination it is still very solid and more than | | | | tonnes of fibre for making new cardboard boxes |
| capable of transporting another item somewhere | | | | this way. For the other 30% of fibre needed, fast |
| else. Recycling your old cardboard boxes this way | | | | growing softwood trees that are being planted |
| may even help you recoup some of your original | | | | faster than they are being used are used from |
| costs of buying the cardboard box if you can sell | | | | sustainable forestry resources. Cardboard boxes |
| it on as a second hand box. | | | | are made from corrugated cardboard which in |
| If your cardboard boxes cannot be sold on, given | | | | turn is made from paper. Paper is the only |
| away or are damaged beyond use then you can | | | | packaging material manufactured from a |
| still help the environment by recycling. Most local | | | | renewable source. |
| authorities have schemes to collect cardboard and | | | | The last but most important part of this cycle of |
| recycle the cardboard boxes, alternatively you | | | | recycled cardboard boxes is you the buyer. |
| can take your cardboard boxes to a local | | | | Without people willing to buy recycled cardboard |
| recycling bank. If you collect your cardboard to | | | | boxes it would just end up in landfill. So make sure |
| recycle in cardboard boxes then you will not have | | | | when you next buy cardboard boxes you ask for |
| to separate it later. For large companies wanting | | | | recycled cardboard boxes. |
| to recycle cardboard boxes there are companies | | | | |