| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Why can't delivery companies use reusable boxes? .... | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 29/09/15 20:44:00 |
| Some businesses are happy for you to reuse any cardboard boxes they have received goods in because it means that they will not have so much in their commercial recycling/waste contract to pay to have collected and taken away. It isn't included in their business rates. Some have very organised collections of these and they are flattened and baled very quickly after being emptied. There are fewer big cardboard boxes used and a lot of merchandise arrives in reusable plastic boxes or shallow cardboard box bases with see-through plastic wrapped over it. |