How many cartons does it take to create building materials?

About 400 cartons can make up each 4’x8’ Continuus Material board. Each truckload of Continuus’ products can remove almost 300,000 cartons from the landfill.

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1. What is a carton?
2. What are cartons made from?
3. Why cartons?
4. How do I recycle cartons?
5. Where can I recycle cartons?
6. Carton recycling isn’t available in my area yet. Can I mail in my cartons to make sure they’re recycled?
7. Wait, you just said cartons are mostly made of paper. Don’t I want to put them with other paper recyclables?
8. Do I need to remove plastic caps when recycling my cartons?
9. Do I need to rinse my cartons?
10. Should I flatten my cartons?
11. Do recycled cartons become new products?
12. Is there a waxy coating on cartons? Isn’t that why they are difficult to recycle?
13. What happens to the aluminum and plastic left over after the carton recycling process in a paper mill?
14. How many cartons does it take to create building materials?
15. Do the building materials really work?
16. Who is the Carton Council?