| Cardboard boxes are not really made of | | | | short fibres in order to make it stiff and resistant |
| cardboard but corrugated fiberboard. The first | | | | to pressure. This is single wall, there is also double |
| commercial cardboard box was produced in | | | | and triple wall corrugated cardboard. |
| England in 1817 and in America in 1895. The major | | | | What can cardboard boxes be used for? |
| increase in the use of cardboard boxes came | | | | Boxes are ideal for a number of uses including |
| when Kelloggs started using them for their flaked | | | | shipping products, as moving boxes for moving |
| cereals. There is even a cardboard box museum | | | | home, shipping items sold on ebay or other online |
| in France called Musée du Cartonnage et de | | | | auction sites. Cardboard boxes can also be used |
| l'Imprimerie which means “Museum of the | | | | as a toy for children as they often love to use |
| Cardboard Box” in Valréas where | | | | their imagination to portray the box as an infinite |
| cardboard boxes where used since 1840 for | | | | variety of objects. |
| transporting the Bombyx mori moth and its eggs | | | | Are cardboard boxes bad for the environment? |
| from Japan to Europe by silk manufacturers. | | | | Most local authorities have schemes to collect |
| What are corrugated cardboard boxes made of? | | | | cardboard and recycle the cardboard boxes, |
| Corrugated cardboard consists of two layers of | | | | alternatively you can take your boxes to a local |
| cardboard, also called 'liners' and a corrugated | | | | recycling bank. If you collect your cardboard to |
| central part called 'fluting' (deriving from the English | | | | recycle in a cardboard box then you will not have |
| word flute). The liner is manufactured from long | | | | to separate it later. |
| fibres in order to make it strong and | | | | Cardboard is also biodegradable and decomposes |
| hard-wearing. The fluting is manufactured from | | | | when sent to landfill unlike plastic. |