Growth in e-commerce is dramatically changing supply chain dynamics and as any online shopper will attest, more corrugated boxes are ending up in consumers’ garages than ever before. To the average observer, it might appear that corrugated box production has increased, but that is not the case; the boxes are just more visible to consumers because of home delivery supplanting some of the shipments that traditionally arrived at retail destinations.
Recycling companies are recovering less corrugated from retail establishments as a result of this shifting landscape. A group of corrugated and recycling companies and experts are working together to recover more corrugated from residential recycling programs to make sure that corrugated recycling continues at full throttle, maintaining the industry’s stellar sustainability record.