Study of furniture constructions made of postconsumer cardboard

Study of furniture constructions made of postconsumer cardboard. The aim of the study was to determine the possibility of using postconsumer cardboard as a material for manufacturing furniture. To make a piece of furniture waste cardboard boxes and tubes for plastic wrap were used. The furniture elements cut out of cardboard were joined together with glue. The strength of horizontal elements and the stiffness of the piece of furniture for the three variants of the load were studied. It was found out that postconsumer cardboard can be efficiently used for manufacturing furniture. The significant impact on the deformation and stiffness of the piece of furniture was to load applied to horizontal elements.