Recycling and reuse have been important components of the corrugated cardboard process for over 50 years. Approximately 3/4 of all corrugated currently in use has been recycled. With the creation and adoption of community bases recycling programs, corrugated cardboard recycling has doubled in the last 10 years.

Recycling has direct economic benefits for the sellers (users) and buyers (manufacturers). Recycling firms pay both business and municipalities record sums for old corrugated boxes and newsprint. Manufacturers find it far more efficient to utilize recovered material than virgin material produced from trees. Continual increasing worldwide demand has also made recycling more efficient. In fact the single largest export from the United States is old corrugated containers and waste paper being shipped off to our Asian trading partners.

Once the used boxes and waste paper reaches the recycling plant, the material may be sorted according to composition. The boxes and waste are loaded into tanks where they are soaked while being stirred up in a water based solution. This process creates a gruel-like material called pulp. The pulp may be further processed to remove ink, residue and contaminants. Once this is complete, the pulp is spread out evenly along a long conveyor where it is pressed tight through a series of rollers as it is dried into cardboard or paper. The cardboard or paper is rolled up at the other end and ready for carton production.

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