Online Shipping Means More Cardboard to Recycle
Increased Online Shopping Means More Cardboard to Recycle
It seems like no matter what time of year it is, whether that be the holidays or just a random Tuesday in March, we are shopping more and more online. From gifts to household essentials and clothes, anything can be delivered to our front door now. While this might make shopping for us less stressful, it also means more cardboard boxes are being shipped to our homes every day.
Break It Down. Flatten It Out. Fit It Inside Your Cart.
Instead of letting all those cardboard boxes pile up in the garage or inside of your home, check out these three easy steps to recycling cardboard efficiently.
1. Break it down: Break down cardboard boxes by tearing or cutting along the seams. The box should easily fold up.
2. Flatten it out: Cardboard sides or pieces must be flat to be able to fit inside your recycling cart to be recycled.
3. Fit it inside your cart: Cardboard, like other recyclables, must fit inside the recycling cart to be picked up. Please don’t overstuff your cart. If you have more than the cart will hold, save the pieces for the next pick-up.
Residents of Pulaski County, including Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood, Maumelle, Jacksonville and Wrightsville, may take any amount or size of flattened cardboard to:
Natural State Recycling
4501 Thibault Road
Little Rock, AR 72206
Monday – Friday, 7 a.m. – 4 p.m.
For directions, please call 501-490-0500
Dumpsters for cardboard only are marked.
Do Recycling Right!
Remember these new basic rules on what goes in your curbside recycling cart:
#1 and #2 empty plastic
bottles and jugs.
#7 plastic
portable/reusable bottles.
Empty glass
bottles and jars.
Empty aluminum,
steel, and tin, cans.
#5 empty plastic tubs (yogurt, butter, sour cream containers)
#1 plastic clamshell
containers.
Paper, cardboard, newspapers,
junk mail, and paperboard. (Flatten
all cardboard to fit inside the cart.)
