Cardboard

Cardboard Recycling Facts

• Recycling one ton of corrugated cardboard saves 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 11 barrels (462 gallons) of oil, and nine cubic yards of landfill space.
• Recycling one ton of cardboard cuts related pollution 95%.
• Corrugated cardboard can be recycled an average of seven times before the fibers become too short and they are filtered out as sludge during the pulping process.
• Cardboard is used to ship 90% of all products in the U.S.
• Production of recycled cardboard uses 25% less energy than is needed to make new cardboard.
• In 2006, 76.4% of cardboard was recycled in the U.S.