Cardboard

We find card in all shapes and sizes at home, including cereal packets, kitchen rolls and corrugated cardboard boxes.  It’s easy to use card over and over again.

Reduce

• Ask for deliveries to be made in one go so you don’t get lots of small boxes.
• Buy large boxes of cereal – they have less packaging than the same amount of cereal in smaller boxes.
• Buy refills or take your own packaging to the shops
• Tell your local supermarket if there’s too much card packaging around your food.

Reuse

• Save cardboard boxes when you move home, flatten them to use when you move again or lend them to a friend.
• Use them to store items in the loft, under your bed or in the wardrobe.
• Ask your local school or playgroup if they need cardboard boxes for craft projects.
• Use cardboard boxes as wrapping around items when you post them.
• Cut out shapes from cardboard to make templates for sewing or painting.
• Put cardboard behind photographs to stop them moving around in frames.
• Make a doorstop or a draft insulator using cardboard

Recycle

• Remove the tape and plastic film before recycling using your recycling service
• Shred or rip it up in to small pieces to put in your compost bin