What to do with all this Cardboard and Plastic?

Question

At my job we have a lot of plastic(packaging) that we just throw away, as well as a lot of cardboard boxes that just end up as landfill.

Any good projects you can think of that I could use carboard or discarded plastic for??

Answer 1

1. Collect it all

2. Take it to your local recycling facilitation

3. Collect cash

4. Feel smart that none of your co-workerd did this!!!!

Hope i helped!

Answer 2

It sounds like the people at your job could care less about the cardboard and plastic. It might cost them money to gear up for a recycle program  In the long run they could actually  make money. They should at least contact a group such as Boy scouts and see if they would help in recycling. There are a lot of recycling companies that would pick this stuff up and cart it away at no expense.

Answer 3

Due to so many different types of cardboard, they require different types of handling to make them usable again. If you want to do a project then you need to sort out what, then see if you can get the right material you can process.

Plastics are a bit the same. I read an article once where a surgeon in India was using Acetone to turn plastic milk bottles into a liquid then pouring them into a mold to make artificial limbs. He put the bottles through a wood chipper first then added the Acetone. Once the Acetone had evaporated, you were left with the same plastic but in different shape.

Cardboard milk cartons make excellent containers for raising seedlings. When it comes to transplanting, no need to empty the plant out, just stick the whole thing in the ground.  How many times have bought seedlings in those stupid plastic pots only to find when transplanting, all the soil falls away when you tip them out. Even after watering.

If you want a few ideas then try to find film of the recycling that goes on in third world countries. What those people find to do with, what could be considered rubbish, and turn it into something well worth while, is amazing.

Answer 4

Leave it out back the homeless bums use it for housing.

Answer 5

Ship it!!  I need materials to so I can make that extension to the toilet that I always wanted.

Answer 6

In metro Detroit they pay $50/ton for cardboard.  It's not exactly a recycling-friendly town either.   So clearly it's worth something to somebody.

Just about ANYTHING is worth money if you have a big enough pile of it, and it's all the same thing and not contaminated with random trash.