Key Points Cardboard is a great gardening tool because it's biodegradable. It improves soil health as it breaks down and ...

If you prefer raised bed gardening to in-ground beds, you can spread cardboard beneath new raised bed frames before filling ...

Brown matter refers to materials like sticks, leaves – and paper, which means your cardboard is the perfect ingredient. If you have a lot of cardboard lying around then even better, ...

Brown parchment paper is in its most natural form, with minimal processing compared to white. istetiana via Getty Images Parchment paper, a commonly used tool in baking and cooking, has recently ...

White paper, brown cardboard boxes, cereal boxes and even used milk and juice cartons will be gratefully received by recycling collectors. Not only are you doing a service for the environment, ...

Limit your use of paper. Reuse cardboard boxes or donate them to someone who will use them -- for example, someone who's moving. See if the companies sending you boxes will take them back for reuse.

Cardboard counts as a carbon-rich or “brown” material in your compost bin and can be used like dried leaves and straw to balance the nitrogen-rich compost ingredients, such as kitchen scraps.