You can make just about anything with a blender full of used cardboard moving boxes and water. See once the cardboard is broken apart in water, when it dries the fibers naturally bond without adhesive. You just hand shred the cardboard into bits the size of crackers, put in a loosely packed handfull, fill with water and carefully and gently blend until you have an even consistency. You have to closely monitor the resistance on the motor, if it starts to slow down and "cry" lay off and let it cool, you may also need to add more water or take out some of the material (I've killed more than one blender with both cardboard and rough fruit/veggie smoothies more than once! Of course these incidents occur at different times...) When you're able to get it up to full speed running smooth, just a minute or so should do it. Now you're ready to build a civilization out of the most abundant waste material in the world.
One of my favorite applications is the plantable seed starter. Just get a plastic picnic type cup or the like (you know the thin flexible plastic cups), and take handfulls of cardboard smoothie, let the excess water drain through your fist (you don't need to squeeze it dry, you want it to be soupy), then start packing it around the shape of the cup. Cake it on to desired thickness being certain not to leave any open or thin areas.
Now just leave this little hut looking mound out in the sun to dry. It will go from a wet dark brown to a very light brown. Gently squeeze in the middle and start to wiggle loose the plastic cup and take it out.
Now you're ready to fill with fine compost, dibble in a seed as per it's packet instruction and nurse it to a healthy sprout, harden off when appropriate and just drop in the ground to biodegrade in place and enhance the soil like woody mulch!
Happy planting!
CHOOSE TO REUSE!
-Moving Boxes Man
www.gogreenmovingboxes.com
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