Chipping Bulk Cardboard

Does anyone have experience chipping palleted cardboard boxes? It seems like the consensus from other posts is that this is not the best idea.


Scott-

I strip the cellophane tape off of the cardboard before I pass it through my wife's paper shredder.  It yields little rectangles about 1/4" x 3/4" of an inch, which is a good size for adding to my compost bins.  I don't overload the bins with too much at one time, and I make sure the greens are in more prevalence than the browns.  It works well.  Usually by the time I turn the bin, all evidence of the cardboard is gone.

I also moving toward the approach practiced by Charles Dowding in the U.K. where he lays cardboard right on top of the weedy ground, tops it off with a layer of compost, and sows transplants directly into that.  Apparently the worms and other decomposers like to eat cardboard!

What happens if you run rolled up cardboard into a tree-chipper?

Christopher,

Thats actually what i am lookin to do. I mulch about 40-50 yds of debris each year from our forest (dead trees and such) and wanted to amend the mulch. I have ust read so many different viewpoints on the use of cardboard in that way. I was looking ot add maybe 10 tons to the mix.