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Cardboard

Where it goes: America Chung Nam - China
What it becomes: cardboard boxes

In 2009, Sedona Recycles recycled 1,215 tons of cardboard, saving:
20,655 trees
8,409,743 gallons of water
562,241 gallons of oil

 

Cardboard Graph

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.

 


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Sedona Recycles, Inc. 2280 Shelby Dr. Sedona, AZ 86336
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