About Cardboard Converters
Join the movement away from single use plastic. Cardboard-Converters is about re-using and recycling cardboard to make a real difference to the planet and your productivity as a business. Make waste cardboard work for you!
Cardboard Converters Description
We are a business selling cardboard, paper and other recycling shredders. We are passionate about the positive impact and cost benefits businesses can have by recycling their waste on site - rather than just exporting it! We have provided expert advice across the world, enabling businesses to benefit from recycling in house.
Its not rocket science. Take cardboard as an example - it could be other materials. Thousands of businesses receive goods in cardboard, then simply do nothing more than pay someone else to take that cardboard away.
With their own shredding capability, those same businesses could be generating the packaging which they need for their outgoing goods, or simply producing another product which they can easily sell on. So making profit from their waste cardboard rather than paying out (and paying out twice if they are buying packaging as well as paying recycling fees)!
Even if a business has to give its cardboard away it can still save money in recycling costs. So there is a place for entrepreneurs to take advantage of someone else's freely provided cardboard to make packaging, or animal bedding for example.
Shredded cardboard makes great animal bedding material. In mat form, it can provide an insulating inner layer to beds, or even a short term bed on its own (especially for chewy dogs)!
For the equine, agricultural or pet supply supply sectors, strip or chipped cardboard beats grass products by being pollen free, readily available and easier to break down for manure /compost.
So what are you waiting for? On site shredding is an opportunity - to be environmentally friendly and to increase profits.
Reviews
Wonderful way to sell on your shredded cardboard!
Enough said...
Some inspiring ideas and a great crowd funding opportunity!
With closed loop packaging and recycling the hot new topic, cardboard shredding to make packaging or animal bedding is a low cost and easy access route to keep up with the big boys like Tesco: https://www.edie.net/…/Tesco-calls-for- recycling-reform-as…/
Environmental goods sector outstrips rest of UK economy!!
Taking a lead.....
Shredded cardboard makes fantastic animal bedding - not dependent on harvest volumes, easy to compost and free from pollens! With your own shredder and board easy to source for free you could save yourself some serious pennies!
Great news - but in the meantime how about packaging with recycled cardboard instead of single use materials?
EDW machines do offer cutting capability above anything else. Very impressive machines. Does anyone still use floppy discs?
The new Packer chipper. This video shows how easy it is to make waste cardboard into a valuable new resource. Get in touch for more info.
Its great to see UK businesses leading the way. Single use packaging of any kind is inefficient - while consumers are clearly getting behind this many businesses are still reluctant to convert to more sustainable packaging - usually on the grounds of form over function. We all need to get our heads around this - effective packaging is what matters, and re-usability and being recyclable should be increasingly important factors in defining what effective packaging is.
We recently supplied a cardboard shredder to a forward looking company to replace their bought in bubble wrap with recycled inward cardboard boxes. Cardboard packaging might be less pretty in some eyes, but it is much easier to reuse and recycle than equivalent plastic products.
Converting your cardboard as part of a sustainability strategy is good for business, as well the environment.
Here are some clever ideas.....