UK online shopping boom fuels cardboard shortage as households hoard boxes
by Zoe Wood from on (#5KCV8)
Packaging prices spike with 135m boxes languishing in homes or stuck at recycling depots
The nation's online shopping habit is causing a cardboard shortage as empty delivery boxes are hoarded in homes or stuck in council recycling bins.
UK households have amassed 135m cardboard boxes during the pandemic, keeping valuable raw material out of the recycling chain and pushing up packaging prices, according to the packaging specialist DS Smith.
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