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Cardboard. By: Brennan Mattingly. Who invented cardboard?. Robert Gair invented cardboard in 1890. Later on Kellogg company started using cardboard boxes to put their cereal in. What is it?.
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Cardboard By: Brennan Mattingly
Who invented cardboard? • Robert Gair invented cardboard in 1890. • Later on Kellogg company started using cardboard boxes to put their cereal in.
What is it? • A material similar to thick, stiff paper, that is made of pressed paper pulp or pasted sheets of paper.
What is it made of? • It is made out of a material made of paper pulp, but thicker and stiffer than paper.
What it’s used for. • The main use for cardboard is to box things up and put them in storage.
The cardboard box • It helps you organize your stuff and makes less clutter.
Can it be recycled • Cardboard can be recycled along with paper and is remade into many different kinds of paper products.
Why recycle cardboard? • When cardboard breaks down in landfill it creates methane, a major greenhouse gas with the global warming capacity 21 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.