| Cheap boxes are often used for light products or | | | | bleaching process but as this is a extra step to |
| durable items that can not get broke easy. Also if | | | | the manufacturing process it adds extra cost to |
| you have a large amount of an item and just | | | | your cheap cardboard boxes. |
| want to keep them all together then just use | | | | The other reason for brown single wall cardboard |
| cheap boxes as you don’t need the extra | | | | boxes being the cheapest boxes is that they are |
| strength of a more expensive box. The key to | | | | single wall and not double or triple wall boxes. |
| choosing the right cardboard box for your needs | | | | Single wall corrugated cardboard consists of one |
| is to look at what you are going to use it for. | | | | fluted medium between two sheets of linerboard. |
| Cheap cardboard boxes are fine for organising | | | | Double wall as it’s name implies, has two |
| storage space. And if you have any large | | | | fluted mediums sandwiched between three sheets |
| cardboard boxes left over children love to play in | | | | of linerboard. |
| them and make houses etc. A cheap box and a | | | | Most local authorities have schemes to collect |
| child’s imagination can keep them entertained | | | | cardboard and recycle the cardboard boxes, |
| for hours. | | | | alternatively you can take your boxes to a local |
| The cheapest type of box is the single walled | | | | recycling bank. If you collect your cardboard to |
| brown box, this is for two reasons. Brown is the | | | | recycle in a cardboard box then you will not have |
| natural colour of the fibre used to manufacture | | | | to separate it later. |
| corrugated cardboard boxes. Changing the colour | | | | Cardboard is also biodegradable and decomposes |
| from brown to white can be done through a | | | | when sent to landfill unlike plastic. |