Businesses that generate a large volume of cardboard (stores and restaurants) may use a CARDBOARD ONLY container to recycle cardboard. However, these recycling efforts are in jeopardy due to contamination, or non-cardboard items placed in the containers. Rumpke Waste and Recycling has created this slideshare to make sure these recycling efforts don't go to waste.

1. RECYCLE ALERT:
Cardboard Contamination

2. Rumpke offers CARDBOARD ONLY
recycling containers for businesses
that generate a large volume of
cardboard. When material that is
not cardboard is mixed in, it
becomes a problem.

3. RECYCLE ALERT: Cardboard Contamination

4. RECYCLE ALERT: Cardboard Contamination

5. These images show cardboard
that has been contaminated.
Contamination is anything other than
cardboard placed inside a CARDBOARD ONLY
container.

6. RECYCLE ALERT: Cardboard Contamination

7. RECYCLE ALERT: Cardboard Contamination

8. When materials other than
cardboard are placed inside a
CARDBOARD ONLY container, the
integrity of the cardboard is
compromised. In other words,
paper mills may not be able to
recycle it.

9. RECYCLE ALERT: Cardboard Contamination

10. RECYCLE ALERT: Cardboard Contamination

11. It’s important that store and
restaurant managers and staff do
not contaminate CARDBOARD
ONLY containers with food waste,
wax-coated boxes, garbage, or
anything else that isn’t cardboard.

12. RECYCLE ALERT: Cardboard Contamination

13. RECYCLE ALERT: Cardboard Contamination