Overabundance Of Cardboard

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What’s the largest piece of solid waste around the country? Yup, it’s cardboard! What can you do with cardboard? That's the question that popped into our heads at the beginning. We are a group of middle school students. With that being said, we are always needing tri-fold presentation boards, for projects. We figured that with the overabundance of cardboard, we could make tri-fold boards out of cardboard. It’s a very convenient and simple project, anybody can make one, and it doesn't even cost a dime! All you do is get a big piece of cardboard, measure it 36in tall by 48in wide, then using a yardstick make straight lines that you will use as cutting guides, then you can carefully start cutting your board out, now all that is left to do is

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