Corrugated cardboard is a very popular product used for efficient exterior packaging, mainly due to its strength, light weight, and recyclability. It can easily have information printed on it, as well as barcodes, and RFID tags can easily be applied. The corrugated cardboard container usually contains organic material, paper, and starch glue, and can be up to 80 percent recycled product. It is also 100 percent recyclable so there is no need to dump the leftover packaging material in the landfill.
Today AussiePacking experts come up with 5 ways to recycle moving boxes after you move to save those boxes from ending up in the waste bin.
Ask Your Neighbors
If you moved into an apartment complex, ask the manager or rental office if they can notify the tenants that your boxes need a new home or if they can let you know if someone in the building is moving. You can also post flyers around your neighborhood to let people know that you have boxes you need to get rid of.
Local Recycling Programs
Go through a Box Broker
Depending on where you live, many cities have companies that specialize in buying and selling used moving boxes.
Post on U-haul’s community boards
U-haul has a great board for people on the move. You can search for people requesting used boxes or post your own message. It’s a site where people can buy, sell or exchange packing supplies, including cardboard boxes.
Call up a Charity
Once, after moving, I called our local library to see if they could use some of our boxes, in particular, the heavy-duty kind that we used to move our books. They ended up taking at least twelve and the rest we gave to a neighborhood community center where they were used to package food baskets. This option might take some time and a few phone calls, but there are always organizations that need boxes.
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