Lincoln recently became the first city in Nebraska to push for a landfill ban on wasted cardboard, a move that was shot down by the city council who decided the alternative—recycling it –would be too expensive. Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler called the move, “disappointing, short-sighted and fiscally irresponsible.”
But that story is an extreme example. Recycling of old corrugated cardboard (OCC) remains wildly popular. Recovery rates reached a record high of 92.9 percent in 2015, up from 54.5 percent in 1993, according to the organization Paper Recycles.
