On: Cardboard-Box Demand Is Slumping. Why That's Bad News for the Economy

[bookofjoe]

unpaywalled article: https://www.wsj.com/business/cardboard-box-demand-is-slumpin...

[bediger4000 → bookofjoe]

Interesting graph in that article - cardboard consumption peaked in 1999. The article hints at improved packaging efficiency as the cause, but the drop is about 20%. Seems like a lot.

[panarchy → bediger4000]

I would be interested to see the rate of use for bubble mailers and the like over the same time period.