Two types of cardboard can be recycled: flat cardboard, which is typically used in cereal and shoe boxes, and corrugated cardboard, which has a ruffled layer between the two flat pieces of cardboard and is often used in packing boxes. Both can usually be recycled through your local curbside recycling program.

Instructions:

1 )Contact your local curbside recycling program to see if it will accept corrugated and flat cardboard.

2 )Break down all cardboard boxes so that they are flat and in a stack. Depending on your community's recycling program, you may have to break cardboard down so that it fits into a brown paper bag, or you might have to recycle it with your mixed paper.


3 )Take cardboard boxes to your local supermarket if your community curbside recycling program does not accept one or both types of cardboard. Most supermarkets will take boxes.

4 )See if your local recycling program will recycle waxed cardboard (milk and juice cartons) at the curbside. If not, your community may have a drop-off center for waxed cardboard. Call (800) CLEANUP for state recycling information.

5 )Call the Corrugated Packaging Council for more information about recycling corrugated cardboard in your area at (800) 879-9777.

6 )Check with your county's department of public works to find out about local curbside recycling programs and community drop-off centers, or look under "Recycling" in the Yellow Pages.