It's like an index of cardboard indicators. One major box manufacturer — President Container, a 60-year-old cardboard box maker in northern New Jersey — supports the Fed's decision.

Why is it so hard to get rid of cardboard boxes? Online shopping means we’re getting more packages than ever. You’d think someone would have found an elegant disposal solution.

Or are they? These 12 things should never be stored in standard cardboard boxes. Learn how you should store them instead.

Use a box cutter to make sure cardboard pieces are no bigger than 3' x 3' Flatten and place the pieces in your recycling cart, or stack them next to your recycling cart.

Amazon has suggestions online for how to recycle packaging materials as well as ways to give old items a second life.

US paper mills are scaling back production as big-box retailers buy less cardboard, signaling a slowdown in consumer spending.

Bend police are looking to the public for any tips that could help them find who abandoned a cardboard box full of eight very young puppies on Sunday at Hollinshead Park in northeast Bend.

Detective work and DNA analysis helped officials learn the identity of a 4-year-old boy whose beaten body was found inside a cardboard box in Philadelphia in 1957. The killing remains unsolved.