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.