Tip No 7: This website was made with 100% used cardboard boxes
At least that is the claim of www.usedcardboardboxes.com which is a service across the US. Interestingly this company attempts to buy and resell quality used, new, misprinted and overrun cardboard boxes.
I wonder if they have a service outside the US? Also would it be ethical or useful for them to harvest cardboard boxes from freecycling groups?
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I have never used their service, but I’ve been in contact with them about offering Tiger Tacos, and I can tell you that they have five (5) distribution centers in the U.S. and nothing outside.
You can see what their buying requirements are on their site, but I don’t think they can/would be able to get boxes from any service like this as I think they need consistent sizes and quality.
I thought their “Tip/Claim” was cute and what they do is a really great thing (reusing is SO much better then recycling) and that’s why we emailed them about our tacos.
As to freecycling boxes, what i find really exciting is what U-Haul is doing to used boxes: http://www.uhaul.com/boxexchange (we sell new tacos on Uhaul.com).