Monika Wiela talks about how Give Back Box uses old Amazon boxes to help charities around the world.

Give Back Box was founded in 2012 by Monika Wiela, who at the time
was running an online shoe store. The idea was inspired by a
homeless man she encountered in Chicago, who was holding up a sign
saying he needed a pair of shoes. Wiela returned later that day
with shoes for him, but he was gone. She spent that night thinking
about what she could do with all the empty boxes in her warehouse
and also help people like that man, and a new social enterprise was
born. As Wiela researched further, she learned that, an estimated
11 million tons of clothing, footwear, towels, bedding, drapery,
and other textiles end up in U.S. landfills every year. In
addition, online shopping is now the preferred method for much of
the buying public. Corrugated boxes are the dominant packaging
method for e-commerce. With this knowledge, Wiela’s mission
crystallized. If online retailers would use Give Back Box, shipping
boxes and other items could be used a second time prior to being
recycled. The impact would be remarkable. Give Back Box has also
teamed up with some of the biggest retailers in the U.S., including
Overstock, Amazon, Loft, REI, Levi’s, Asics, Ann Taylor, LEGO,
Nordstrom, Viva Terra, Ecru, Bonobos, Scrubs & Beyond, eBags,
Lou & Grey and many others. The Give Back Box platform is open
for any retailer who joins as a partner. Give Back Box has truly
created a new method of waste diversion for retailers because, in
addition to creating a secondary use for the shipping box and
guaranteeing that it will be recycled, it helps clear closets,
create jobs and offer more companies and their customers an
opportunity to recycle.