Cardboard Questions

1. What is corrugate cardboard?

- A paper-based material consisting of a fluted corrugated sheet and one or two flat linerboards.

2. How is corrugated cardboard made?

- The pieces that make up the corrugated cardboard are crimped inside the machine. The machine then takes the liners and glues them to either side of a piece of corrugated cardboard.


 3. What is the primary raw material used to make cardboard?

- Fast-growing pine trees provide the primary raw material used to make corrugated cardboard.


4.  How many cubic yards of landfill space can be saved by recycling 1 ton of cardboard?

- 3 cubic yards of landfill space. 


5. How many trees can be saved each year if each household used 1 roll of recycled paper towels?

 - 544,000 trees each year.