The Tech Box
December 22, 2022
Recycling this Holiday Season
Corrugated cardboard boxes and other fiber-based packaging are recyclable, but the same is not true for all packaging you might come across this holiday season.
Whether you live in an urban or a rural area, you have options for where your waste ends up when you no longer have any use for it. Recycling and waste centers see a lot more waste this time of year. Even though most waste is recyclable, the profit margins do not exist for companies to go all in on recycling. Half of all 294+ million tons of waste generated in the United States ends up in one of the more than 2,600 landfills.
You can gift the corrugated packaging industry back this holiday season by recycling any corrugated cardboard boxes you receive because nearly all old corrugated containers (OCC) are used to make new paper products. But what about other gift packaging that's not so obvious? See below some common gift packaging and whether you can include it in your recycling bin this year.
Need real-time recycling information for your community? The Recycling Partnership has launched a beta version of a chatbot featuring real-time answers for what's recyclable in your community.
If you are searching for even more recycling options for your holiday waste, check out Terracycle's website for companies offering recycling solutions for those hard-to-recycle items.<
Every little bit counts.
Chase
Chase Kammerer is the Technical Services Manager at Fibre Box Association (FBA). If you have technical questions about the corrugated industry, you can reach him directly at ckammerer@fibrebox.org.