Corrugated Cardboard Processing and Packaging

Activities at the Student Center generate a large volume of corrugated cardboard boxes every day.  That cardboard is collected daily and moved to the processing center for processing and packaging.  The food service operation generates a daily flow of flattened cardboard boxes that contained various food products, and the bookstore generates large volumes of cardboard at the beginning of each semester.

Cardboard is also collected at Decker Hall every day, though in much lower volumes.

The rest of the campus is on a weekly cardboard collection cycle, unless there is an unusually large volume that justifies a special pickup.

 The cardboard is taken to the processing center in the Church of God Ministries Building.  It is compressed into bales using a down stroke bailer to increase the density for shipping.  Each bale of cardboard weighs between 750 and 800 pounds. 

Bales are loaded into a 53’ trailer, along with gaylords containing other kinds of paper, for shipment to the paper broker.  The paper broker repackages the corrugated cardboard into larger bales for shipment to the paperboard plants that process it into new cardboard.