Student Housing Communities
A smarter cardboard recycling routine for student residents, housing teams, and campus sustainability.
Student housing creates intense cardboard moments: move-in, online ordering, room setup, care packages, semester transitions, and move-out. Box Caddy gives students a simple, branded way to flatten, store, and carry cardboard while helping housing teams keep recycling areas cleaner and easier to manage.
Easier for students
Students can flatten, store, and carry cardboard with other recyclables instead of letting boxes pile up in rooms, hallways, lounges, or recycling areas.
Better campus behavior
Box Caddy makes the expected behavior obvious: break boxes down before they reach shared bins, carts, compactors, or collection points.
Cleaner operations
More organized cardboard can help reduce overflowing bins, messy recycling rooms, extra staff resets, and move-in or move-out cardboard surges.
Built for the realities of student housing
Move-in and move-out spikes
Room setup, shipped furniture, storage bins, and end-of-year packing can create sudden cardboard volume. A clearer routine helps students manage boxes before they become building clutter.
Undergrad and graduate housing
First-year residence halls, apartment-style upperclass housing, and graduate communities all have different rhythms, but each benefits from a simple tool that makes cardboard easier to handle.
Sustainability alignment
Flattened and organized cardboard supports cleaner recycling streams, visible sustainability habits, and practical participation from students who may be living on their own for the first time.
The Box Caddy Student Housing program
25-30% off retail
Retail price: $35
Includes custom branding, shipping, and re-stocking for new move-ins. No hidden costs.
Program options
- All residents + new move-ins
- First-year or high-volume residence halls
- Graduate housing + new move-ins
- Move-in kits or welcome packages
How it works
- Customize: Add a university, housing, residence life, sustainability, or property logo to the Box Caddy.
- Distribute: Provide Box Caddy to students at move-in, in welcome kits, by building type, or for new residents throughout the year.
- Use: Students flatten and store cardboard, then carry it with other recyclables to the building’s recycling area.
- Operate cleaner: Housing, facilities, and residence life teams benefit from more organized cardboard and less recycling-area friction.
Ready to make cardboard easier for students and staff?
Box Caddy helps student housing teams support cleaner buildings, better recycling habits, and a more practical sustainability routine during the highest-cardboard moments of the year.
Contact Jon Gillam
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