Other Uses for Moving Boxes

A large cardboard box is ideal to make a playhouse for your kids. Head to your nearest furniture store or Home Depot where you can get extra large boxes before they throw them out. You can use a second box to create the roof and other details. You can make this project as simple or as elaborate as you please. You can paint the box, leave it plain or decorate it with various fabrics and other materials.

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Chances are high that many of the staples currently lying around your house or office are or were once packaged in cardboard. Consumer goods like toothpaste, cereal and snack foods almost always come nestled inside a type of cardboard called paperboard. Pressed flat and coated to lend a more aesthetically pleasing appearance, paperboard is a high-class version of corrugated cardboard, which is commonly used for shipping purposes.

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In fact, cardboard boxes are the packaging material of choice for 90 percent of products shipped in the United States. Because of cardboard’ s dominating presence in the world’s packaging and delivery sectors, cardboard boxes comprise a whopping 9 percent of the refuse in a typical landfill.

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But cardboard doesn’t lose its usefulness once the snacks are gone and packages have been opened. Aside from simply recycling cardboard, you can use the material in dozens of creative and practical ways. Many have compiled a list of 10 uses for old cardboard that children, adults and even rodents will appreciate.

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