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Here's an idea. Cut up most of the smaller boxes and place the pieces into a larger Amazon box, and leave on the porch. Some porch pirate will steal it, job done!
I’m an Amazon and Costco/sams club fan so boxes are taking over my garage. Is there n easy wy to dispose of these or is fattening them and putting them out for city to handle as they will in my town?
Sounds like a fire hazard to me.
Break them down and put them in your recycle bin for the city to handle.
I would agree with you, but counterintuitively, this just came out https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c05191
Summary-- considering all energy inputs in processing and transportation, plastic bags use much less fossil fuel than cardboard boxes (!!!)
Cardboard is trees, and 100% biodegradable. Do wharever you wish with it, it isn't "waste".
Cardboard doesn't just "come from trees", there's a production process that takes place, from transporting the timber to pulping wood chips, and cutting, printing, gluing, and forming the boxes. This process uses massive amounts of energy, fuel, water, and chemicals.
It's definitely wasteful to use a box one time and toss it into the waste stream. Cardboard that ends up in the trash and in landfills isn't going to biodegrade if it's compacted by tons of other rubbish. I tried putting ripped up cardboard into my compost pile and it takes ages to break down, or never. Mostly it turns into a heavy, wet layer that you can't even bust up with a shovel, so I stopped putting it in the compost.
I’m an Amazon and Costco/sams club fan so boxes are taking over my garage. Is there n easy wy to dispose of these or is fattening them and putting them out for city to handle as they will in my town?
That's what I do - first I cut the tape at all the seams so the box can (usually) easily be folded flat. Then I remove staples and any excessive poly tape - basically anything that's not actually cardboard or kraft paper. Any really large boxes are further ripped into smaller panels with the boxcutter razor. The results are put out at the curb every other week.
I order a lot of stuff from Amazon and other web-based retailers, and the above is a bit of work, but realistically, it only takes about 5 minutes a week - certainly less time than it would take to drive the cardboard somewhere - and I'd still need to break the boxes down somehow just to get them into the SUV even if I was driving them somewhere.
I’m an Amazon and Costco/sams club fan so boxes are taking over my garage. Is there n easy wy to dispose of these or is fattening them and putting them out for city to handle as they will in my town?
You can post it on your local FB or Nextdoor site. Folks are always looking for free boxes when they’re moving.
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