Cardboard

Where it goes: SCA Tissue - Flagstaff, AZ
What it becomes: paper towels, paper napkins

In 2010, Sedona Recycles recycled 1,391 tons of cardboard, saving:
23,633 trees
9,627,932 gallons of water
643,685 gallons of oil

Cardboard Recycling Facts

• Recycling one ton of corrugated cardboard saves 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 11 barrels – 462 gallons – of oil, and nine cubic yards of landfill space.

• Recycling one ton of cardboard cuts pollution 95%.

• Corrugated cardboard can be recycled an average of seven times before the fibers become to short and they are filtered out as sludge during the pulping process.

• Cardboard is used to ship 90 percent of all products in the U.S.

• Most cardboard is used by big companies like department stores and supermarkets because they are constantly shipping products.

• Recycled cardboard only takes 75 percent of the energy needed to make new cardboard and lessens the emission of sulfur dioxide that is produced when making pulp from wood trees.

• In 2006, 76.4 percent of cardboard was recycled.