The Bite:
Shipping box reuse, ahoy: Check out companies that'll hook you up with used cardboard boxes (and sites where you can list your own) for mailing or moving, so you can sink less cash and fewer trees next time you ship or move.
Are you wasting a hull lotta cardboard?
02.17.2009
Submitted by tmeronek on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 1:20am.
The Benefits:
- Titanic-size energy savings. Remember, it's reduce, then reuse, then recycle - reusing uses less energy than recycling.
- Less wallet-wrecking. We found large, used moving boxes for free at one of our links (U-Haul sells 'em new for $3).
- More trees for makeshift rafts. We cut down about 6 billion trees each year worldwide, and we're cutting faster than we replant.
- Not casting it away to the dump. Cardboard makes up more solid waste in our landfills than any other type of trash.
Personally Speaking:
Sara got a handy Used Cardboard Boxes kit for her SF to NY move. She listed the used boxes on Craigslist when she was done, and someone called about them within half an hour.
Wanna Try:
- Used Cardboard Boxes - offers gently used and new-but-misprinted boxes by mail. Also: kits that come with packing tape and Sharpies ($76/one bedroom moving kit).
- BoxCycle - just type in your zip to find used boxes locally - you can pick 'em up today; also list boxes you wanna get rid of ($2 minimum order).
- Craigslist and FreeCardboardBoxes.com - list your unwanted boxes or search for free ones at these sites.
Cocktail Fact
The UN estimates that there are more than 3 million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Biters use 10 large used or recycled moving boxes instead of new ones, we'll save 7,350 trees.
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