It wasn’t just you. Americans consumed more corrugated cardboard boxes than ever last year. Stay-at-home orders and stimulus checks fueled a banner year for e-commerce and a run on shipping boxes.

China — a big buyer of U.S. corrugated boxes — is becoming pickier about what it buys. It will no longer accept bales of cardboard that are contaminated, say a pizza box with a piece of pizza ...

The cardboard box goes largely unappreciated. Yet, it is indispensable to our daily living. It holds all of our knick-knacks and personal mementos when we move or have things shipped. It holds our ...

Corrugated cardboard boxes, both new and used. When COVID-19 locked Americans at home in 2020, they began ordering in everything from fresh meal kits to office supplies and pizzas.

Corrugated cardboard is one of those things that we never really think about, but chances are you see it every day. Look around you. As I am sitting here in my office, I can see a cardboard box of ...

But now boxes are piling up in homes across the country because of the explosive growth in e-commerce this year. That’s left the corrugated packaging industry dependent on consumers to recycle ...

Once we open a corrugated cardboard box, we simply toss it into the garbage, not caring where it might end up. That practice borders on blasphemy for one Pittsburgh-area artist.