Cardboard recycling is similar to paper recycling. Recycling cardboard significantly reduces production costs: the volume of wood, water, energy, and CO2 emissions, and most importantly, it helps to save our planet. Let’s see closer below how this becomes possible.

2 categories of cardboard on an excellent sorting

Cardboard objects are divided into two categories:

– Recovered household packaging:

◦ this is raw cardboard, such as boxes, etc. ;

◦ easy to recycle;

– Liquid food packaging:

◦ contain other materials, such as aluminum or plastic;

◦ will require special processing to separate the different raw materials.

Cardboard collection: municipal containers

Cardboard must be disposed of in the appropriate container to be recycled. Unfortunately, some municipalities do not organize paper and cardboard collections except for bottles and flasks. They only collect household waste, bulky items, or public dumps. Whereas in some other countries, as depicted in the picture above, some people make their living by collecting cardboard…

Cardboard transformation: new products

Recycling transforms it into new material thanks to a good sorting of cardboard. This material goes to the industrialists who can produce:

– crates, shoe boxes, egg packs;

– rolls of gift wrap, toilet paper, tissues, etc.

Design and creative leisure: the second life of cardboard

With the craze for DIY over the last few years, cardboard has greatly interested decorating professionals and individuals eager to create.

You can transform solid cardboard into a piece of furniture or a decorative object.

Recycled cardboard: for individuals or professionals

The creation of cardboard furniture interests:

– designers of ephemeral stands for trade shows;

– designers of furniture and decorative objects;

– individuals, as a creative leisure activity and personal production.

Cardboard furniture: a new trend

Making cardboard furniture is very rewarding:

– free and inexhaustible recovery of large and thick cardboard boxes from cluttered professionals who do not always know what to do with them:

◦ garage owners happy to do a service and do a good deed (cartons for transporting bumper sheets in particular);

◦ printers (paper transport boxes);

– great solidity of the cardboard: resists 10 years to all the evils with a suitable varnish;

– ecological approach;

– unlimited creative possibilities, etc.

Cardboard recycling: not yet optimized

However, it is not always easy to find the necessary cardboard:

– large cardboard plates with double or even triple flutes are not very common;

– the boards are difficult to transport and take up space;

– DIY and hobby stores have not yet taken on board the challenges of the approach and do not provide enough materials.

To learn how to recycle wood, read this page.

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