Strange question,
A friend of mine has a company which produces quite a bit of waste cardboard, he generally just throws it in a skip with the other rubbish and throws it away. My question is: Is there a market for waste cardboard, does it have a value per kilo, tonne etc?
I know tesco & the likes recycle everything, do they get paid for the waste?
Used to be able to get a free ro-ro skip dropped off and swapped when full, but I think they charge for the skip now, so just keep ditching it 
cardboard and kraft paper have a value and you can make money collecting it. I drove for York Waste Paper Services and we had a set run each day, then took all the cardboard into Linpac, they paid our boss at the end of the week, we had our own contacts for other stuff and used to “borrow” the lorry on a weekend. Plastic milk crates and beer crates were a good source of beer money and an easy days work for a couple of hundred quid 
As WN says there is a market for collecting and recycling paper/cardboard but I imagine a company would have to have an awful lot to make it profitable not to give it away.
One of the companies I work for have a lot of various packaging at the end of each run and it gets collected at the end of the week and paid by the ton.
Couldn’t tell you rates per ton but employer says it makes it a more profitable business if we recycle everything.
All the scrap wood is used to fuel the boilers that keep the factory warm in winter.
Google waste paper prices, its all around 200 per tonne shredded and baled we transport whats called light letter which is shreeded memos and letters etc and it is currently 240 a tonne baled and shredded delivered in full 26 ton loads
We get £110 per tonne for 40 tonnes, that’s baled over about three months collected by the buyer.
In the early 90s i once loaded a trailor load o cardboard at linwood (scotland ) and delivered it to a yard of commercial rd london, the guy in the yard asked what ya got driver ,i told him …ohhhh not again says he ,pull your curtains and park next to a line o skips …lol .They pushed the load into the skips…what a waste o time!
Burn it, the ashes take up less space.
dunno what the payment is but we have a compactor at work which bales all out cardboard got bout 6-7 bales a month which get picked up
Must be worth something as enough gets baled, chucked in a container and stuck on a boat to China. Worth talking to a recycling company near you.
couple of years ago most of it was being exported to be burnt in power stations 
but the price was only about 15-30 pounds per tonne. no idea what the price is now as not in that trade anymore.
Phone one or two waste recyling companies if you have the quantity etc, they will ususally set you up with a baler and collection scedule and take a cut from a paper recyling company, obviously you’ll have to pay for someone to be trained and operate the baler safely, you can’t really lose though as the equipment will be under warrenty and it won’t cost you if it gets broken/damaged. You’ll probably save space too, if you can remove a skip.
JIMBO47:
In the early 90s i once loaded a trailor load o cardboard at linwood (scotland ) and delivered it to a yard of commercial rd london, the guy in the yard asked what ya got driver ,i told him …ohhhh not again says he ,pull your curtains and park next to a line o skips …lol .They pushed the load into the skips…what a waste o time!
In the early 90s, done a few loads of waste cardboard from East London to Pescara 
DS Smith Recycling… dssmithrecycling.com/
Our customer makes a million pounds a year profit from the recycling centre at the top end of the warehouse. There’s a lot of it though, we backhaul the recycling from the pubs.
Only one thing missing from this thread, is the fact that if you are collecting cardboard or paper to recycle, you will probably need a waste transfer licence
Starfighter if your referring to a well known pub chain, then due to the success, DHL have now set up a recycling division on the merits and accolades won. It seems the way the big boys are winning contracts, by also offering a recycling uplift.
starfighter:
Our customer makes a million pounds a year profit from the recycling centre at the top end of the warehouse. There’s a lot of it though, we backhaul the recycling from the pubs.
I used to load from LUK in Sheffield and they have a dedicated in-house recycling warehouse where everything is sorted and resold, from copper rivets to iron filings, packaging, paper and oils. George King in Letchworth Garden City were the same, the recycling bay was probably busier than the factory 