Re: Cardboard

[bsen107@unlvm.unl.edu (Jan Hygnstrom)]

Noel writes:

>We are undertaking a project with a number of supermarkets in this city.
>They produce a large amount of cardboard packaging that arises from product
>distribution.  The supermarkets are too small, have too many suppliers with
>many of them from outside the country, to influence their suppliers.  They
>alone cannot introduce returnable containers.  The market for recyled
>cardboard is very variable.  Currently the supermarkets cannot find a
>collector for recycling. Has anyone any good P2 ideas?

Not a P2 idea, but this may help in the meantime. Have the supermarkets
joined together to cooperatively recycle their cardboard? Altogether, they
may have very large amount of cardboard that may help with securing
markets, or at least getting someone interested.

Jan Hygnstrom, Extension Assistant
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(402) 472-9614