Have you ever stopped to think about how many cardboard boxes come into and out of your home every week? Well, the NYC Department of Sanitation knows the answer – it's a lot.
Have you ever stopped to think about how many cardboard boxes come into and out of your home every week? Well, the NYC Department of Sanitation knows the answer – it's a lot. New Yorkers have been steadily increasing the number of cardboard boxes they toss out in the trash.
An apartment building can get a summons from the city if the cardboard boxes aren't broken down."The amount of cardboard that the average New Yorker is bringing into their home and then consequently putting at the curb has been increasing steadily for many decades really, since the rise of e-commerce," Goodman said.So now that we're using and tossing all this cardboard out, what happens to it? Well, some of it goes on a barge to Staten Island eventually.
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