The Three "R's" - Not Just for School Kids Anymore! by Tina Marie Bibergall

Imagine coming up with a business idea that helps to make the planet a little “greener” and makes you some money! Here is an example of a company that is capitalizing on this concept.

UsedCardboardBoxes.com specializes in the concept of “rescue, resell, recycle” by purchasing a large volume of used boxes from businesses and then making them available to the general public for personal use.

A several-step process is followed by the company from start to finish. First, they market to businesses that may have a large volume of boxes to be purchased with the following advertising: “Please help us keep the trees in the forest and boxes off our streets! If you are a business that collects at least 1,000 of the same size quality used boxes on a monthly basis, we can often purchase your boxes at a higher rate than your existing recycler.”

Once UsedCardboardBoxes.com (UCB) has “rescued” a truckload of quality used boxes from a large company, the boxes are brought back to a regional distribution center for inspection. There, boxes are sorted by size and shape. If they meet strict quality standards, the boxes are then packaged into “stacks” and “kits”; these packages come with packing accessories as well.
UCB will then “resell” those packaged boxes to customers across the country via their UsedCardboardBoxes.com website. Free 2-business day delivery is included, and rates are very competitive.

UCB’s motto is “You don’t have to cut down a tree to make a cardboard box!” UCB.com takes pride in its efforts to be a no-waste company. Any boxes that don’t meet UCB standards are “recycled” (now the “3 R’s are complete – Rescue, Resell, Recycle) through traditional recycling methods.

Most people don’t think about the fact that a cardboard box can be used more than once before sending it to be recycled. Although recycling is far better for the environment than simply sending boxes to the landfill, it is still not the optimum process. When consideration is given to the energy and chemicals used and the emissions created by the traditional recycling process, it is definitely more environmentally-conscious to reuse boxes at least once. This also cuts down on the number of trees that must be cut down to create new boxes to replace the ones that are being discarded. Even items that contain “some recycled materials” use at least a portion of new materials as well.

So the next time you need boxes, consider purchasing them from UCB.com. They will help you “SAVE TIME, SAVE MONEY, SAVE TREES”.