Cardboard
What is Cardboard Used For?
- Cardboard is a thicker stronger version of paper.
- It is often used for packaging (boxes) because it is lightweight and strong.
How is Cardboard Made?
- Cardboard is made from trees.
- Preserving tree benefits
- Rivers
- Lakes
- Air
- Homes of wildlife
- Cardboard is made of two kinds of paper. It has three layers
- two smooth layers called the liner and
- a center, crinkly layer called the fluting
- Cardboard can be strong enough to make furniture, large containers, and even dog kennels.
Cardboard Recycling
Cardboard should be free from oil and grease. You can flatten the boxes to conserve space.
Remember to rinse out cardboard milk containers to remove smells before you take them to the recycling depot.
When you go to the recycling depot, put the cardboard and cardboard milk containers into the bins.
Then the cardboard will be placed into a special machine called a baler. The baler presses the cardboard very tightly into bales.
Cardboard is then placed into a pulper.
Water and chemicals are added to make a soggy, mushy pulp.
Pulp is cleaned, de-inked, and dried into flat rolls of paper.
Paper is sold to a manufacturer who will make different papers into cardboard for new boxes, containers, and packaging.
Newspaper - insulation, pet bedding
Phone books - pet bedding
White paper - note pads
Most recycled cardboard is made into new cardboard boxes.
Facts
Each bale of cardboard weighs about one metric tonne. (That is close
to what an elephant would weigh!)You can make a huge difference to our Earth when you recycle!
Each tiem we recycle one bale of paper or cardboard, 17 mature trees will be saved from cutting. That makes a huge difference to our environment.
Each tiem we recycle one bale of paper or cardboard, 17 mature trees will be saved from cutting. That makes a huge difference to our environment.
In Camrose there is close to 100 bales of cardboard that are made each month at the
Centra Cam Recycling Depot. Can you figure out how many trees that would save?
Old cardboard will not be wasted if you take it to the recycling depot.
It can be made into new boxes.
