What is it?
Corrugated boxes are used for packing, storing and transporting products to factories, warehouses, retail stores, offices and homes. Corrugated boxes are also known as old corrugated cardboard, or OCC, if the boxes have been deposited into either a recycling bin or a garbage receptacle. OCC is the most widely recycled of all packaging materials. Corrugated boxes have a fluted, corrugated medium layer (flipped layer), sandwiched between layers of linerboard.

Where can you recycle corrugated cardboard?
Corrugated cardboard can be recycled at residential curbside and put in the yellow bag provided by Port Moody. Multi-family complexes, industrial, commercial and institutional sites will have larger bins for cardboard setup by the contractor and the City.

Why is corrugated cardboard banned in Metro Vancouver?
Metro Vancouver has banned corrugated cardboard from disposal facilities as garbage. Corrugated cardboard was banned because the infrastructure to recycle it is solidly in place and it is a bulky material that takes up a lot of landfill space.

Where is it processed?
Crown Packaging, situated in Burnaby, BC is the only corrugated cardboard consuming mill in the province. This mill uses corrugated cardboard in the manufacture of gypsum wallboard liner, boxboard and the middle corrugating medium (the ripple part) in corrugated cardboard. The material from this mill is shipped to gypsum wallboard manufacturers and box plants.

Crown Packaging uses 10 percent of all waste paper in Canada. As an energy source, 90 percent of the steam the mill uses comes from the Metro Vancouver Incinerator located adjacent to the mill site.

Corrugated cardboard is also processed in mills located in Washington state, Oregon and overseas in Korea and China.

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