Amazon, Goodwill Program Creates Use For Empty Cardboard Boxes

SUMNER, WA - Right now, there's an army of workers toiling inside the Amazon fulfillment center here stuffing cardboard boxes full of Christmas gifts to ship to homes from Sumner to Springfield, Mass.

In most cases, all those cardboard boxes will end up in the recycling bin or garbage, only used to ship something one time.

But this year, Amazon is teaming up with Goodwill to give those boxes a second life. Now, you can go to the website of the Give Back Box program and print out a shipping label that will allow you to reuse empty boxes to ship goods to Goodwill. The shipping labels will get your second-hand box to the closest Goodwill, free of charge.

You can fill the empty boxes with anything except electronic devices - they'll even take that ugly sweater you didn't ask for.

For more about the Give Back Box program, visit the organization's website.

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