Go through life acquiring all the junk you want. But please, just remove it sustainably when you’re done. Sustainable junk removal is one of the first steps we can take toward a greener future. Junk removal services that embrace eco-friendly practices can be forces for good in the environment and the community. We showcase this dedication to sustainability in our green guarantees. We even echo it in our service promise to customers and our ...
It all started with an old refrigerator. As I was sitting around a campfire in Australia, a friend said he hauled away someone’s fridge for a hundred bucks. It seemed so easy: take away people’s junk and get paid to do it. I thought it was the perfect business opportunity as a college student, and this early idea was the first iteration of my company The Junkluggers. I didn’t think that this ...
Your junk has a bigger socioeconomic impact than you might imagine. Donating used clothing or old furniture is one way to keep your junk from filling up landfills. And recycling your plastics and glass bottles is also a great start, but it can’t be your only strategy. You need to thoroughly contemplate where your junk goes after it leaves your home. If you don’t acknowledge this, you’re blind to your impact on ...
Not all your junk needs to go to the landfill. Spring cleaning, moving to a new home, and the occasional purge all result in one thing: junk. How did our junk problem get so out of control? For all our talents at acquiring junk, we’re actually pretty bad at getting rid of it. When we look at the junk we want to get rid of, we weigh our options. Do I know anyone who ...
We’ve all heard “reduce, reuse, and recycle.”Its origin traces back to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, passed by Congress in 1976. People in the US became aware of their impact on the environment and how they could change it right around this time. Recycling is the norm nowadays, but we’re still not recycling as much as we could. Just because an item isn’t an aluminum can or a glass bottle ...
Updated March 2022 | Chapter 2 of 7 We’re creating more and more junk, but we’re running out of places to put it. As society advanced, we manufactured more and more products designed to make our lives easier. But this also created more junk, and that junk needed a new home. As a result, the landfill was born as a final resting place for everyone’s discarded junk. Landfills aren’t a modern creation ...
Updated March 2022 | Chapter 2 of 4 When it comes to our old junk, what they say is true: out of sight, out of mind. Most people stop caring about what happens to their unwanted junk as soon as it clears the threshold of their home or business. The problem? Where your unwanted items end up has a significant impact on the surrounding communities and environment. However, where your junk ends up is only one ...
Updated March 2022 | Chapter 2 of 7 We’re creating more and more junk, but we’re running out of places to put it. As society advanced, we manufactured more and more products designed to make our lives easier. But this also created more junk, and that junk needed a new home. As a result, the landfill was born as a final resting place for everyone’s discarded junk. Landfills aren’t a modern creation ...
Updated March 2022 | Chapter 2 of 4 When it comes to our old junk, what they say is true: out of sight, out of mind. Most people stop caring about what happens to their unwanted junk as soon as it clears the threshold of their home or business. The problem? Where your unwanted items end up has a significant impact on the surrounding communities and environment. However, where your junk ends up is only one ...
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