Blue bins overflow with Amazon and Walmart boxes. But we're actually recycling less
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-blue-bins-amazon-walmart-recycling.html
A USA TODAY analysis of several industry studies on cardboard use and recycling paint a different picture.Americans are sending more corrugated cardboard to the landfill than to recycling plants compared to past years.
Online sales have surged in the past five years, and cardboard use jumped 8% in the same period, according to the American Forest & Paper Association. Yet cardboard recycling has dropped.