It is best to use plain brown cardboard boxes. Dyed packaging is fine too, but avoid anything with a glossy coating. The shiny layer is typically made from plastic that won't break down into the soil.

Online retailers are giving the humble cardboard box an extreme makeover, transforming a six-sided receptacle for delivering goods into the new shopping bag. Out: brown, plain, boring. In: neon ...

And the suggestion is to combat obesity by mandating that fast foods and so-called "junk foods" be packaged in plain brown wrappers, much as pornography used to be in more discreet times. So instead ...

Cardboard boxes and brown grocery sacks make perfect frost cover and at the end of the season can be recycled. I keep various boxes on the patio and when frost is forecast simply put one over the ...

CARDBOARD box prices are set to rise in the coming months, as manufacturers find themselves paying more to secure brown grade paper. Made from virgin fibre or recycled material, the paper is the ...