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A Green Move

Moving from your home creates a plastic and paper filled environment. Much of these moving supplies such as bubble wraps and newsprint are thrown into the trash after the move. There are ways that you can make your move green-friendly, and decrease waste while increasing the health of the earth! The environment is a fragile ecosystem, and the use of boxes decreases our renewable resources. Currently, only 65% of cardboard is recycled per year in the United States. We can increase this amount by ensuring that we recycle any cardboard moving boxes that we use in our move. Cardboard boxes may appear to be 100% cardboard but there are other contaminates used to create these boxes that decrease the integrity of the environment. These contaminates include wood, foam, plastics and metal. When it comes time to recycle these moving boxes, separating the components is costly, and creates greenhouse gases which contribute to the problem of global warming.

Moving boxes can be obtained at discount prices from this web site OneStopMovingBoxes.com or others who have recently moved. If its from somebody who has recently moved, they may be used but many moving boxes are created to be sturdy therefore more than one use is fine for the move.

The tape that is used throughout the move can be recycled at your local recycling center, and when you are finished with the boxes and bubble wrap, you can choose to recycle, or give the products to others who are moving. You can also put them in storage and save them for if you will be moving in the future.

There are packing products that have been specially produced to lessen the instance of moving boxes. Although these products are more expensive, they are made of durable plastic and can be reused time after time. The thing that is better about using moving boxes is that after you are done with them you can fold them flat, which makes for easy storage.
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