Eco-Friendly Moving Boxes
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Taking used bleach bottles and turning them into moving boxes that can be reused over and over again is what one company man did. Spencer Brown was in a landfill in the spring of 2006 when he couldn’t get over how many cardboard boxes were wasting and just laying in the landfill where he was. He began to look around at the many different wasted items and he spotted a pile of plastic bottles, which turned out to be HDPE #2 plastic and were mostly bleach and detergent bottles and containers. He then came up with an idea what any eco-conscious person would envy. Take the plastic containers and make a reusable container that would eliminate the need for cardboard, especially with people needing boxes to move with.
Nine months after this thoughts we rolled out with RecoPack. They are reusable lime-green tote boxes that are made entirely from recycled plastic bottles. You can rent these boxes from his company, Earth Friendly Moving and they are delivered to your home in bio-fuels trucks. The company keeps more than 350 pounds of cardboard, which ultimately saves tress, and 500 pounds of trash out of the landfills, and his company also saves the atmosphere from 2,500 pounds of CO2.
This same idea also prompted Brown to create RecoCube, which is a compostable, recycled, paper replacement for packing peanuts and the Poopy Pallet, which is a plastic pallet that is made from recycled baby diapers.
With Brown’s commitment to reduce packing and moving related wastefulness, mainly cardboard, he has started a whole new revolution of moving and a whole new revolution of a waste-less move as well.
*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: The is $3 Billion dollars in electricity used in the United States each year from devices that are turned off but not plugged in. Don’t add to this waste, place all your electronics on a power strip and turn the strip off when you are not using the electronics.
