1. Cardboard By: Brennan Mattingly

2. Who invented cardboard?  Robert Gair invented cardboard in 1890.  Later on Kellogg company started using cardboard boxes to put their cereal in.

3. What is it?  A material similar to thick, stiff paper, that is made of pressed paper pulp or pasted sheets of paper.

4. What is it made of?  It is made out of a material made of paper pulp, but thicker and stiffer than paper.

5. What it’s used for.  The main use for cardboard is to box things up and put them in storage.

6. The cardboard box  It helps you organize your stuff and makes less clutter.

7. Can it be recycled  Cardboard can be recycled along with paper and is remade into many different kinds of paper products.

8. 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.

9. Modern day uses for cardboard boxes