Box shredder
The new must-have appliance for every home
As we embark on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, let’s turn our attention to all of boxes we’re about to receive.
The average consumer receives 10-15 packages delivered to their home per month. i bet many of you reading this think that is low. We probably see 10-15 per week on our front doorstep. With the e-commerce industry growing at 18.9%, we can only expect to see the number of packages increase.
What do you do with all of the boxes you receive?
A certain number you can use for storage, but the rest go to recycling or worse, the landfill. There are only so many boxes you can reasonably use. And if you’re like us, you probably already have a fully stocked “box store” in your garage.
Box shredder
What if you could shred the boxes you receive just like a paper shredder shreds paper?
I’m imagining something the size of a large garbage can (or that can sit on top of a garbage can) that you can insert small to medium sized boxes into and it turns them into shreds.
Larger boxes could be cut or broken down further to shred them.
It would need to plug into a standard 120v outlet.
Ideally it shreds boxes into a large clear garbage bag so you can easily use the shreds.
The market is wide open. An Amazon search for “box shredder” returns a mix of paper shredders and cheese graters. You could be the Thomas Edison of box shredders.
What do you use the shreds for?
Here are 20 ideas (thanks ChatGPT):
Compost material
Mulch
Packing material
Pet bedding
Seed starter for pots
Fire starter
Insulation
Erosion control
Arts & crafts
Gift bag filler
Sensory play
DIY Pinata filler
Constume making
Pet litter
Weed barrier
Oil clean up
Soundproofing
DIY furniture padding
Winter plant protection
Chicken coop bedding
You get the idea. The shreds could be used for so many other things. Once you’ve re-used the boxes for every conceivable use case, you shred the rest to open so much more. Or at least, make the shreds more compact and easy to recycle.