Recycling the propper way

Here in Oxford we have been converted to the fortnightly rubbish collection which has been in the newspapers so mach recently. Personally I think it works well. The only issue comes about when you have a sudden increase in rubbish or recycling. The main reason why the plot has been neglected for the past few weeks is because we moved houe. This move has generated enormous amounts of paper and cardboard for recycling. The paper has now all gone to the recycling center (some 3 car loads), but the boxes are now going to the plot. I am planning on covering the whole of the plot which is not currently being worked with the cardboard.

So today I took the first car load down to the allotment site and having carefully removed all of the sticky tape from the boxes I spread them over the earth. Despite the large number and size of boxes they actually haven't ended up covering much area. This is probably due to my larger than necessary overlaps, but then again I don't want to let any light through to the soil. I think I also need to get hold of a load of compost and cover the cardboard and let the whole thing rot down into the soil.