Recycling centers: Visit your local recycling center to find broken-down cardboard boxes. This may be a good first stop for you, as there's bound to be some type of cardboard boxes for you to take.

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Cardboard boxes flood San Francisco's recycling plant. Recology, the city's waste and recycling hauler, asks that people break down their boxes. See properly broken-down boxes in the following slides.

The previous size the city required was for cardboard boxes to be broken down into 3-feet-by-3-feet sections. The change was made because of complaints from residents, city officials said.

The boxes are processed at an amazing rate of 90 boxes per minute. The unused, cut off paper goes down below, where it is recycled as many as six more times. Explore ...