SUSTAINABILITY
What are the advantages of cardboard recycling?
There are many advantages to having your business waste cardboard recycled:
The environmental factor – high volumes of paper and cardboard recycling means that landfill space is saved. Recycling cardboard also means that fewer trees need to be felled to feed our ever-growing need for packaging. It takes approx 12 trees to create one tonne of paper for newspapers!
The renewable factor – when the cardboard goes through the final phase of the recycling process, wood chips from birch and pine trees are added. These trees are much faster growing than hardwood trees. In addition, they can be grown in various climates meaning that they can be planted in specific locations, managed and cut quickly for the recycling programme. It does not take long to replace them, creating a closed loop of recycling.
Energy is saved – Recycling cardboard and paper saves huge amounts of energy from being used during the production of these materials.
Job creation – the whole recycling programme has created a new industry in waste management services. There are jobs at all levels from research and development, to transportation, to factory workers.