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SAVE TIME, SAVE MONEY, SAVE TREES™ - That's the drive behind Move Like A Celebrity. We sell quality used and new cardboard boxes for moving and shipping. We are an earth-friendly company providing simple and convenient delivery of moving kits, moving boxes and shipping boxes at discounted prices
Being right in the middle of a rather big move myself at the moment, a blog post at The Budget Ecoist about recycling moving boxes struck a chord with me. They have 6 six great ideas about how to recycle moving boxes.
1. Take a box, leave a box: Moving
companies such as
ECO-FRIENDLY moving company now offer drop locations at stores,
allowing customers to drop-off their reusable moving boxes for other
customers to use, or pick up a previously donated box for their own
move. This is a way for customers to help one another while promoting
reuse of the product, which is always preferable to recycling. With
every reuse of a box, a new one is prevented from entering the cycle.
2. Go local with Freecycle and
Craigslist: If you are unable to score free boxes at your moving
company, try
Freecycle or
Craigslist.
We often see our local peeps posting
offers to give away their
gently-used moving boxes. If you’re not a
member of Freecycle,
read this postrecycle
all of your unwanted treasures! Need a box? Post a wanted ad. Want to
recycle your boxes? Post an offer ad. It’s that easy.
3. The ECO-FRIENDLY moving company Box Exchange: If you can’t score boxes for free, your next best bet is to go to ECO-FRIENDLY moving company’s messageboard, The ECO-FRIENDLY moving company Box Exchange, where you can trade, sell or buy reusable boxes and moving supplies from other like-minded movers.
4. Return for money: So you were
unable to score boxes for
free, and unable to buy them used. OK. So
maybe you’re going to have to
purchase them after all. If that’s the
case, be sure you purchase from
a company that offers a buyback
guarantee. At ECO-FRIENDLY moving company, customers who
provide an
original receipt can recoup some money, while preventing
waste.
5. Kids’ castles: And now the fun
comes…let’s face it,
some of the boxes just don’t make it through the
move. For those boxes
that are mildly damaged and just can’t make it
through another packing
cycle, might we suggest having a bit of fun?
For anyone who’s ever seen
a toddler have at the box their gift came
in (while ignoring the $30
purchase!), you know how imaginative
children can be with boxes. Get
the kids outside, hand the boxes
over, and see what they come up with!
Or go easy and check out these
instructions on
how to create the castle of boxes of your dreams!
6. Recycle: You’ve reused other’s boxes (for
free!),
you’ve passed them along as well. You gave the damaged ones
to kids to
use to their delight. Finally…these boxes are just plain
worn-out!
The last refuge of the broken-down, beat up moving box: the
recycling
bin.
From the NEWS
If BP can stand for "Beyond Petroleum," what's to stop the trucking industry from claiming to "deliver a cleaner tomorrow"? Not much, apparently.
In a story about the current practices of K Street lobbyists, the Washington Post reports that even the American Trucking Associations -- a national trade group -- is adopting an eco-friendly tone:Record gasoline prices have done more than boost advertising budgets for worried energy lobbies. They also have turned long-held positions of significant lobbying groups upside down -- and decidedly pro-environmental.
The American Trucking Associations last week did a 180 (or pretty close to that) on two key issues. In news releases notable for their use of the color green, the truck company lobby said it would accept a fuel tax increase -- once its most hated policy proposal -- if the extra revenue went toward reducing highway congestion. It also suggested tougher fuel economy standards for trucks, another shocker for the trucking industry.
Guess the ATA might have to iron out some differences with
Truckers and Citizens United, a more grassroots-style group that
staged a
gas-guzzling, street-clogging "rally" in Washington last month to
protest the price of fuel.
To get its green message across, the ATA has launched
a campaign called "Trucks
Deliver" touting six steps to reduce the industry's emissions. Their
congestion mitigation strategy comes after the jump.
The American Trucking Associations advocates initiatives to improve highway infrastructure and reduce congestion.
Relieving highway congestion is a critically important strategy for reducing carbon emissions. Improving the nation’s highway infrastructure is a long-range challenge, and the American Trucking Associations has recommended a 20-year program, focused initially on fixing critical bottlenecks. Longer-range ideas include creating truck-only corridors which would permit carriers to further increase the use of more productive vehicles. The needed infrastructure improvements can be paid for with a dedicated fuel tax if necessary. If congestion in all 437 urban areas were eliminated, the reduction in truck CO2 emissions would be 45.2 million tons over ten years -- equal to the annual output of a population the size of the State of Colorado.
Whether the "Trucks Deliver" campaign is an exercise in green-washing, an adaptation to new economic realities, or a sincere effort to reduce the trucking industry's carbon footprint, one thing is clear: They'd still rather not broach the subject of freight rail.
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