Comments on: How to Recycle Cardboard

on 8/19/2008 where is a cardboard recycle location in 30144 or 30318 area

on 3/26/2006 Please don't wet your cardboard down to make it fit in the container - most recycling places won't accept wet cardboard or newspaper because it gets moldy too easily and once it's moldy it's trash and can't be used. For places that pay by weight, the added weight of the water also makes wet paper products unacceptable. since they measure (and pay) by weight, they want to pay for paper - not water. Wet product also has a bad habit of making other boxes and papers wet, spoiling a lot more than just the few that you wet to try to make them fit into the recycle bin.

on 11/22/2005 Quite by accident, I discovered a great way to stuff the recycling barrel nearly full of cardboard with almost zero effort.

I get lots of cardboard boxes, that won't fit into our recycle bin, even small boxes take up a ton of room. In the past, I have stomped on them, cut them into flat pieces, folded them, and even climbed on top of the barrel to fit more in. But I had many boxes that had to wait outside for the next bimonthly recycling day. One night it rained, the next morning I had to put the trash out. The 5 large cardboard boxes lying next to the barrel were wet. Guess what? The cardboard was pliable from the water. They just crumpled at the slightest push. All 5 wet boxes went into the barrel with room left over in just seconds! Now, I hose down my boxes the night before recycling, or I let nature do it with rain.