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Why is it becoming harder to find cardboard boxes?

Cardboard boxes used to be readily available and used by most businesses on the high street. They therefore used to hand them out as second hand moving boxes online to the public too once they were finished with them, which was useful as they were free. Supermarkets used to do the same service to the public, with old banana boxes. This free second hand box service is becoming more and more difficult to find, because fewer companies are using packaging in order to help the environment. They are re using boxes wherever possible to ensure they do not need to purchase extra ones, which in turn saves them money. So why is it becoming so hard to find packing boxes for moving from manufacturers? Manufacturing businesses are not happy to deal with the public. They want to deal with larger companies who will buy thousands of boxes at a time on pallets, rather than sell one or two boxes at a time to the average household who might be moving home or shipping something. This means