At 02:59 PM 5/3/2002, The Bus Depot wrote:
>landfill space buying new cardboard when so much perfectly good used
>cardboard is being thrown away every day.

The stuff is recyclable, at least around here.  The only problem with used
cardboard is that it gets its strength from the corrugations so when they
get bounced around the box loses much of its integrity.  Corrugated
cardboard is a great invention BTW -- before that, merchants used to
routinely allow 25% for shipping breakage (or so I've read).

>  While we still do collect boxes
>from local merchants, this year we started buying new boxes as well, in
>sizes that were better suited for specific items that we frequently ship.  I
>am still, for now, resisting buying non-recyclable packing materials, such
>as styrofoam, plastic, etc. that will continue to exist for hundreds of
>years after I'm done with it.  I have been working with our employees on how
>t

That's the neat thing about the air bags -- they're LDPE which is the
easiest thing it the world to recycle, they pack flat until inflated, they
can be re-used or punctured and recycled...

regds
david

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