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By: Monica Harper
By looking at the topic, the first thing that comes into mind is that what is sustainability? “Sustainability is a phenomenon by which we mean everything that is living in this environment is dependable on one another in a way or the other”.
Moreover, it is sustainability that keeps the whole environment suitable for us, human beings, to live collectively with the different natural habitats.
Now let’s know how this corrugated material is sustainable and suitable to our environment. Corrugated packaging material is obtained from the trees, and trees are a renewable source. Thus, it is the most recoverable material in the packaging genre.
Along with getting it from trees, it can be obtained from the old corrugated packages, and the ratio of its obtainability from the old packaging boxes is almost more than their manufacturing from new raw materials that is tree pulp.
The above ratio is proved according to the survey of an individual corrugated company, corrugated.org. According to their research in 2018, the reusable capacity of old corrugated boxes to become new boxes remained 96% that is a considerable number. This reason makes this material tremendously sustainable, as most of its modern manufacturing obtained by recycling it.
If we compare corrugated to other packaging materials, the reusable and recyclable rate of corrugated is fifty times more than plastic and even different materials. Sometimes people confuse corrugated with cardboard or pronounce it as a type of corrugated. But the reality is opposite to it.
Cardboard is a little bit fragile as compare to corrugated, whereas the corrugated is extremely strong and stalwart in its structure. Mostly, they work as the shipping boxes of products.
The Ultimate Journey of Recycling the Corrugated!
It is ok; the corrugated becomes famous for being recyclable continuously and famous for being the most sustainable material. But the question is how you can recycle it. And what is the real process of this amazing task?
Yes, you are becoming curious to know. Let’s satisfy your curiosity by getting knowledge of the whole procedure.
First things first, the old corrugated containers are filtered and then gathered at one place in a storage room. Then they turn into huge bales, and those bales transferred to a paper mill. Their workers untie those bales and the old corrugated containers put into the machines. You can consider that machine as a blender.
After putting into the blender, the containers blended them and turned them into pulp again. The amalgamation of water and old containers then turns into the pulp. When it turns into a paste, it is sent to the presser.
In the presser, the workers press it and give it the shape of a sheet again. The additional water of the sheet dries in the dryer, and eventually, the final sheet of corrugated has achieved.
By getting these recycled sheets of corrugated, they turn into massive rolls, and then these rolls transferred to the packaging factories. There they turn into sustainable corrugated packaging boxes.
Hence, this is the whole journey of recycling and reusing the old corrugated containers to becoming the new packaging material.
Irrefutable Advantages of Recycling Corrugated Material:
The benefits of recycling the corrugated material and reuse it are countless and undeniable. On one can refute the significance of them. According to the research of the Life Cycle Assessment department, the recycling of this material has lower down the greenhouse emission of the packaging industry, about 35% that is a great victory of the industry against the deteriorating condition of the environment.
The recycling of corrugated has a vivid impact on our earth and its atmosphere. By recycling it, we have lowered down the solid waste disposal. Because if we do not recycle it, it will be dumped, and this will increase the filth of the earth. That will be a pathetic scenario.
Henceforth, by recycling corrugated, we have achieved the goal of keeping our earth healthy and green.
Furthermore, when we use old corrugated container pulp, it saves a massive number of trees. As the former pulp and new trees create the new fluted, remain safe. It is an enormous benefit of recycling it.
How Many Times Can You Recycle Corrugated Material?
Corrugated material has fibers of pulp in its structure. These fibers have a specific life span. By recycling them again and again, they become fragile and delicate and lose their potential. Thus, how many times they can be recycled, it the question!
The answer to it lies here that one can recycle corrugated about five to seven times. It has the ability to provide new material about seven times. Hence, you can recycle it almost seven times and can get the new corrugated sheets.
Moreover, after seventh times, they are not useless. Then they turn into newspaper sheets or as egg cartons as rough material manufacture both of them. And you can get them by again and again recycled corrugated material.
Reusing Abilities of Corrugated Boxes!
Another amazing aspect of corrugated material that a lot of people do not know is that you can reuse it along with recycling it. You can reuse it for various purposes. For instance, you can use them as packaging boxes again.
Moreover, you can save them for the next usage. Make them flat and keep them safe. Next time you will get a brand-new box for the packaging of your products.
In addition to that, you can use them for various other purposes at your home. Many people use them as storage boxes of their belongings. Moreover, you can use them as archive boxes in your offices too.
The boys have done the most intelligent use of them; they make a shoe rack of them. In short, you can get them to use in any aspect and for any task.
The pith and marrow of above black and white material are to provide information to the reader about the sustainability of the corrugated material and to depict its other characteristics related to recyclability and reusing of it.
