Christmas Creates Tsunami of Cardboard Waste

Mountains of empty boxes are piled high at recycling centers across the country, due to the evergrowing appetite for online shopping. Cyber Monday smashed records as retailers reported 9. 2 billion in sales. Kreigh Hampel is the coordinator at a recycling facility in Burbank, California, where more workers are being brought in to separate heaps of cardboard from other trash. He says there is a cardboard tsunami in California and part of the problem is due to the way packages are shipped.