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Eco-friendly Moving Tips

Posted by Patrick Lundgren on Wed, Feb 27, 2013 @ 10:29 AM

Eco-friendliness does not need special circumstances to take place. Moving home can be an auspicious area where the green attitude can be applied in practice. Usually transferring property to a new home and the preceding clearing are considered a source of copious waste which is bad for the environment. But that opinion is not true because people can make a difference and avoid polluting the environment if they abide by their environment friendly principles. Thus they can reduce their carbon footprint and be satisfied that their moving project is eco-friendly.

There are simple things that can be done to reduce the harmful impact on the environment while moving property to a new home. People who have decided to move their belongings on their own should divide their items into such groups that they can make as few trips to the new home as possible in order to transport them. When professional removalists are chosen, the size of their vehicle should be such that it would not be too large for the items to be moved. When smaller vehicles are used, the fuel consumption is reduced accordingly, and little by little the efforts of people who apply this principle add up to create a significant economy of fuel and hence less harm for the environment.

eco-friendly-moving-tips-green-moving-tips Another auspicious source of economy of materials and hence opportunity for less pollution is the storage of packing materials and containers as far early as possible. Any cardboard boxes, newspapers, bubble wrap, etc. can come in handy to accommodate small and large objects. After each shopping tour, people who are planning to move to a new home can store the packing materials and containers of their purchases. Such packing materials and containers do not take up so much space, and they are easily stored in a spare room, in the cellar, or in the attic. People can also ask their friends and relatives to collect such packing materials and containers for them, and when several people collect such packing matter, they easily gather enough to accommodate a lot of household property. Yet another policy which is eco-friendly is to use the packing materials and containers to transport part of the items, then get the materials and containers back to the old home and use them to pack another portion of items.

Abiding by biodegradable materials is a must, and whenever possible, especially if people decide to buy the packing materials to move their items to a new home, they should look for biodegradable materials in order to be certain that when disposed of, these materials will degrade in a short enough span of time. Furthermore, a number of retailers offer packing boxes which are made from recycled materials. That is another good use of materials which continue to do their service instead of polluting the environment after just one use.

Finally, people can use their clothes, pillows, cushions, etc. as padding materials and thus avoid the purchasing of padding matter to fill the spaces between the items in the containers with items ready to be moved to the new home.

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