Corrugated Cardboard Boxes

Many items are shipped in corrugated cardboard boxes. Clean cardboard is highly recyclable and accepted by most curbside recycling programs. To prepare boxes for collection, always flatten them completely and cut apart any pieces longer than five feet. While removing easy-to-strip tape or shipping labels helps reduce contamination, it is not strictly necessary. On pickup day, keep your cardboard from blowing down the street by nesting flattened boxes inside a single unflattened box, fitting them inside your recycling bin, or wedging them securely underneath it. Finally, if a box has greasy spots, such as a used pizza box, be sure to cut out and discard those sections, as grease ruins the cardboard recycling process.