New Trend: Earth Friendly Moving

Moving Ecologically Saves the Environment, Time, and Money

By Chloe Xanthis, published May 04, 2007

If you have ever moved you know how many cardboard boxes, rolls of packing tape, bubble rap, and peanuts it requires. What you probably didn’t think during your last move is what happens to all those moving supplies when you are finished with them. If you just tossed your moving supplies in the garbage, they most likely ended up in the local landfill. Before now there were virtually no alternatives to using typical cardboard boxes and moving supplies for your move, and the environment suffered because of it. With the debut of Earth Friendly Moving and RecoPack moving has changed for the better. Earth Friendly Moving recycles plastic bottles to make a reusable moving container called RecoPack. Earth Friendly Moving and their innovative RecoPack is currently only available in Orange County and Long Beach, but they will be expanding to all of Southern California in 2007 and nationwide within the next 3 years.

RecoPack is actually a shortened name for Recycled Ecological Packing Solution. The RecoPack is basically a plastic box with an attached lid system that is perfect for moving almost anything. RecoPacks are available in five sizes to fit everything in your home, and they rent for a mere $1 a week. Cardboard boxes cost upwards of $2 a piece, so RecoPack will save you money as well as help the environment. RecoPack can also save you time, according to the company customers using RecoPack save an average of 37 hours per move. Earth Friendly Moving also makes an ecological bubble wrap alternative called Geami, which is made from recycled cardboard boxes. Earth Friendly Moving even makes an alternative to peanuts called The RecoCube, which can be used in your garden as fertilizer after your move. The pallets the RecoPacks and other supplies are delivered on are also environmentally friendly, they are made with sanitized disposable diapers! Even the trucks at Earth Friendly Moving are environmentally sound as they run on bio diesel. Basically everything that will be used in your move and to get the supplies to your door is environmentally sound!

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