As an important transportation packaging container, corrugated boxes cause pollution to the environment by the carbon emissions generated during their whole life cycle, and analyzing and calculating the carbon footprint of corrugated boxes has high economic value and social significance. This paper takes corrugated boxes as an example to study the carbon footprint. Taking a 5-ton van as a functional unit, based on the life cycle evaluation method, we focus on analyzing the carbon footprints of its production, storage, transportation, and waste recycling, and measure the carbon footprints of its whole life cycle using Gabi software. The study shows that, in the whole life cycle, the corrugated carton production and manufacturing stage has the largest carbon emissions, with a contribution rate of 64.55%, followed by the waste recycling stage accounting for 32.28% of the total carbon emissions. The warehousing and transportation stage accounts for a small proportion. This shows that measures should be taken to strengthen supervision and reduce carbon emissions in the production and recycling of corrugated boxes.