When I first heard about the BeatBox, I was skeptical. A build-it-yourself drum machine made from cardboard? Wouldn't that disintegrate within half an hour? Finger-tapping isn't as violent as, say, ...

The smooth brown paper they produce goes to cardboard-making vendors, who sell it in turn to Amazon and other retailers. “Brown is the future,” Strick said one morning this winter at the mill, where ...