Dining Services
Cardboard
We recycle
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All corrugated cardboard found in boxes, sheets, or packing
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US Foods, our preferred food vendor, packages it's products in 80% recycled-cardboard boxes
We do not recycle
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wax coated boxes (fruit and vegetable boxes), poly-coated boxes
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pizza boxes and egg cartons
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any corrugated cardboard contaminated by cooked foods, grease or oils
Facts about cardboard
- According to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, recycling 1 ton of cardboard:
saves over nine cubic yards of landfill space
saves 17 trees from being cut down
saves 7,000 gallons of water
cuts pollution by 95% - Three quarters of all U.S. recycled paper comes from corrugated and paperboard packaging according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
- Recycled cardboard only takes 75% of the energy needed to make new cardboard and lessens the emission of sulfur dioxide that is produced when making pulp from wood trees
- Many of the products found on the grocery store shelves, including cereals, crackers and other dry foods, soaps, detergents and personal care items, are packaged in recycled paperboard.
- Due to a growing ambiguity and misuse of the recycling chasing arrows symbol, the 100% Recycled Paperboard Alliance uses its own trademarked symbol for products and packaging made from 100% recycled paperboard. Look for their symbol if you would like to encourage 100% recycled box board.
- From the Recycling Association of Minnesota: You might not know it, but when you go to the grocery store you're probably buying plenty of products in recycled content packaging. One of the key recycled paper items at the grocery store is paperboard. You'll see paperboard boxes for cereal, baking products, pasta, crackers, cookies, snacks, and other products. Manufacturers of recycled paperboard use allot of paper that you recycle. The Rock-Tenn paperboard mill in St. Paul uses 350,000 tons of recycled paper every year!
