Why we recycle cardboard boxes

Cardboard is made out of Pine tree trunks. 80% of all the products sold around the world are packaged, transported or shipped in cardboard boxes. That's  lot of trunks and a lot of Pine trees. Even though paper and packaging companies own thousand of acres of Pine tree land that they harvest for the sole purpose of cardboard manufacturing, it is not enough. The demand is higher every year with new products being packaged and moved around. But that's not all. Since cardboard is inexpensive to manufacture, it is being used for furniture and more.

The good news is that the long, strong fibers of the Pine tree trunks, used to make cardboard can be recycled several times. So manufacturers are starting their own Recycling industries and are encouraging their buyers and the population in general to recycle their corrugated cardboard boxes.
They do this to save money but mainly to save the trees, earth and us. Recycling cuts the gas emitted by the manufactories in half. The more we recycle the cleaner we breath.

If you have, used or new, corrugated cardboard boxes do your part and recycle them. You can resize them and use them again or flatten them and dispose of in the recycling bin. Remember that only corrugated cardboard can be recycled because it is not coated with wax or chemicals.

Save a trunk. A Pine tree trunk.

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