How to Recycle Cardboard
- 1). Contact your local curbside recycling program to see if it will accept corrugated and flat cardboard.
- 2). Break down all cardboard boxes so that they are flat and in a stack. Depending on your community's recycling program, you may have to break cardboard down so that it fits into a brown paper bag, or you might have to recycle it with your mixed paper.
- 3). Take cardboard boxes to your local supermarket if your community curbside recycling program does not accept one or both types of cardboard. Most supermarkets will take boxes.
- 4). See if your local recycling program will recycle waxed cardboard (milk and juice cartons) at the curbside. If not, your community may have a drop-off center for waxed cardboard. Call (800) CLEANUP for state recycling information.
- 5). Call the Corrugated Packaging Council for more information about recycling corrugated cardboard in your area at (800) 879-9777.
- 6). Check with your county's department of public works to find out about local curbside recycling programs and community drop-off centers, or look under "Recycling" in the Yellow Pages.
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