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reuse
Donate used cardboard to a community garden
Green Moving Tip:
Community gardens can often use your unusable boxes as sheet mulch.
City:
San Francisco
State:
California
Use scrap cardboard as packing material
Green Moving Tip:
You won't always need to stuff up empty space in boxes if you cut out pieces of scrap cardboard and "frame in" your stuff. You know how they put styrofoam molds into product boxes to keep the objects perfectly in place based on their shape? You can simulate this by cutting, folding, and shaping cardboard scrap pieces and fitting them in like little springs around your stuff.
City:
Portland
State:
Oregon
Rinse and save zip lock bags
Green Moving Tip:
When you're done using zip log bags for food storage, lunch, etc. just rinse them out and put them in your dish rack, save them and use them to organize/separate small items for your next move.
City:
Chicago
State:
Illinois
Save your shipping boxes
Green Moving Tip:
When order stuff online, or get gift packages in the mail, flatten them and save them in your garage, basement, etc. for reuse during your next move.
City:
New York
State:
New York
Have a garage/yardsale
Green Moving Tip:
The easiest way to make moving easier and greener is to throw a yard/garage sale. Chances are you have a lot of stuff that you either don't want, need, or will never use again. Set aside things that you may want to hand down to friends and family, then start sorting everything else into categories. Pick up some of those little stickers and price everything out.
Set a Sunday aside and promote it in the neighborhood and online at Craiglist.org, on your social networking accounts, etc.
You'll be able to make some extra money and reduce the amount of stuff you actually have to move which means less packing material and less fuel burnt to transport your stuff.
You may even free up some old boxes that you can then reuse!
Name:
Boxy
City:
Los Angeles
State:
California
Company:
GoGreenMovingBoxes.com
