{"id":92,"date":"2019-03-21T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/?p=92"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T12:40:01","slug":"simple-ways-to-reuse-cardboard-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/packaging\/simple-ways-to-reuse-cardboard-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Ways to Reuse Cardboard Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardboard. One of the most commonly used paper-based products in the world, with a hugely versatile range of applications. From boxes to cards, tubes to boards; most products are recyclable but there is also a huge scope to reuse them. Cardboard doesn\u2019t like getting wet, but other than that it\u2019s fairly good to go with any number of reuses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cardboard Boxes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cardboard boxes definitely don\u2019t need to just be used once. Unless they\u2019ve been roughly treated, the simplest way to reuse them is for the same purpose again, and again, and again\u2026.and for every time they get reused, it (in theory) prevents another box being created for the same purpose.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you don\u2019t need to reuse a box in its original purpose, then what about any of these options:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Giving them away to friends and family for moving and\/or storage<\/li>\n<li>Use for kid\u2019s activities such as den building<\/li>\n<li>Cut up to use in arts and crafts\/card making<\/li>\n<li>Give away to a local business or charity<\/li>\n<li>Redesign into something for the house such as a shoe rack, sawhorse or even some modern artwork<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy 0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/heartshaped-shadow-box-handmade-corrugated-on-556565152?src=Sb-6c2ueiWBFuAn_q0LYNg-1-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Anna Kubczak, Shutterstock<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>House storage for items such as bags, books and clothing<\/li>\n<li>Garage or shed storage<\/li>\n<li>Save them up for Christmas or birthdays and hide presents in them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of our insulated shipping systems come with our \u201cStrong Double Wall\u201d outer boxes that are perfect for encouraging reuse as well as recycling \u2013 check the <a href=\"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/freshpac-selection\/\">Freshpac range<\/a> out here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardboard. One of the most commonly used paper-based products in the world, with a hugely versatile range of applications. From boxes to cards, tubes to boards; most products are recyclable but there is also a huge scope to reuse them. Cardboard doesn\u2019t like getting wet, but other than that it\u2019s fairly good to go with any number of reuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15888,"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/15888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hydropac.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}