Millenium Waste offers commercial cardboard recycling and pick up
From the moment you pour yourself a bowl of cereal in the morning until you unwrap a new box of toothpaste to brush your teeth at night, you come in contact with dozens of cardboard packaging products throughout your day. Many of these products are for shipping and packaging and most people discard them in the trash without a second thought.
Did you know the Environmental Protection Agency says that cardboard accounts for 90% of packaging materials in the United States? Almost everything you purchase or ship uses a cardboard packaging of some kind. With this in mind, businesses and corporations are responsible for a large part of the use and production of cardboard boxes and packaging and the waste that goes along with it. Millennium Waste offers commercial cardboard recycling and pick up for your business. Since cardboard is a made from natural resources, trees and water mostly, most corrugated cardboard products can be recycled.
The EPA goes on to say, when you choose to recycle cardboard, the process uses 25 percent less energy than creating cardboard from raw materials. Recycling cardboard also lessens the emission if sulfur dioxide and uses less energy than cardboard made from virgin wood. When you recycle 1 ton of cardboard, it save 9 cubic years of landfill space and 46 gallons of oil. Another great benefit of using and recycling cardboard is that it is non toxic and is safe to handle. Most landfills are able to recover close to 80 percent of the cardboard waste that is simply discarded and not intentionally recycled. By choosing to recycle your businesses waste, you are able to help close that gap. Some cardboard packaging comes with a coating on it. Contact Millennium waste if you are unsure if this type of cardboard is recyclable. We are glad to help you with any questions you might have about the proper disposal of cardboard and other waste materials.
Millennium Waste Inc. will work with your business to form a customized recycling program that fits your commercial recycling requirements. Our skilled professionals will help you create a regular and proper recycling plan that could help to lower your waste costs, and enhance your business image with your customers.
We provide our business customers with a container for cardboard recycling so that they can their part in preserving the earth's natural resources as well position themselves in a positive light with their employees and customers.
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