China — a big buyer of U.S. corrugated boxes — is becoming pickier about what it buys.It will no longer accept bales of cardboard that are contaminated, say a pizza box with a piece of pizza ...

Corrugated cardboard must be flattened and placed in, next to or under the curbside recycling bin. Do not place flattened corrugated cardboard boxes in a larger box. Only boxes that are flattened ...

Americans consumed more corrugated cardboard boxes than ever last year. Stay-at-home orders and stimulus checks fueled a banner year for e-commerce and a run on shipping boxes.

Corrugated cardboard is a big part of the boom, representing 80% of the packaging used for online orders. The report says that about 407 billion square feet of corrugated cardboard was produced ...

Cardboard boxes and packaging materials are in short supply because of the supply chain crisis. Constraints to containerboard and corrugated cardboard have been a growing issue since early this year.

Corrugated cardboard prices rose from $715 a ton in January 2020 to $785 per ton in March, according to Bank of America Global Research packaging analyst George Staphos, ...