Cardboard

​ Recycling Cardboard

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 __Backround Information__ Cardboard comes in all different types of packaging, from food products, to labor and over seas projects. The good news is that we can recycle cardboard. The UK alone can produce about 8 million tons of cardboard each year, which means everyone in that country could have 140 large boxes of cardboard each (1). Cardboard is a biodegradeable souce, it is made from paper pulp and is used for shipping and food packaging (3)

__Tips on Recycling Cardboard__ The first tip that anyone can use to recycle cardboard is to buy less amounts of cardboard in packagings. We are trying to persue consumers to reduce the size of cardboard packaging in there products (1). There are two types of cardboard that can be recycled, the ruffled kind used in packaging items is called connrugated cardboard (2). This type of cardboard is mostly used for shipping products because it is a very durable matiral, and this cardboard can be reused over and over again. Another type is the flat paperboard cardboard that most people are most fimilar with because it is used in ceral and tissue boxes, this type of cardboard is mainly used for advirtising and food lables for packaging (3). There are some cardboard items that can not be recycled, pizza boxes cannot be recycled because of the greasy chemicals from the pizza. Also wet boxes and flattened out boxes cannot be recycled. Cardboard is a biodegradeable source (3).

__What You Need To Know__ Cardboard is used to ship products all over the U.S 90% of the time. Most of the Cardboard waste we recieve is from large companies, department stores, and supermarkets. Recycled cardboard takes 75% of energy needed to make new cardboard and decreases emission of sulfur dioxide that is produced from shipping pulp to wood trees. By recycling 1 ton of cardboard, we can save 9 cubic yards of landfill space and 46 gallons of oil (3).

__What can and cant be recycled?__ Cant Recycle - Used Pizza Boxes - Wet and Flattened out boxes - Frozen Food packaging.

Can Recycle - Any dry food cardboard packaging - Tissue Boxes and Ceral Products - Any reused or recycled cardboard. - Magzines, Newspaper, and Catologs (6)

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__ (1) - Recycling Cardboard, Recyling Expert. March 17 [|www.recyclingexpert.co.uk] (2) - Why Recycle Cardboard? Ezinearticles.com. By Chris Norriss (3) - Facts About Cardboard, Earth 911. [|www.earth911.com]. (4) - Campus Design and Facilites, Last modified 3/18/2010, UC Santa Barbra, [|www.facilities.ucsb.edu] (5) - Waste Managment Services, Last Modified September of 2008, (6) - What can be recycled? DEP. Last Modified 9/01/2009 [|www.dep.state.pa.us]