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Yes, and . . . there's all the brown trash, i.e. the boxes from Amazon and everyone that pile up so much in middle-class houses. Yes, it's recyclable in most places, and yes, the carbon may be less from one delivery round than everyone driving themselves to the store, but it sure makes big piles of discarded material very fast.

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In deed! There was recently a nice piece in the NYTimes about cardboard -

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/magazine/cardboard-international-paper.html?searchResultPosition=1

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