Moving is near the top of my "Things I Hate to Do" list right behind the arduous weekly trek to and from the laundromat. The excitement of a new abode is often subdued by the packing and unpacking, lifting and loading, and the boxes, oh those boxes. If only there was something to make this process a little less frustrating and a little more green...
Bring ZippGo into your moving equation to deal with that box issue. Founded by a former manager of an organic grocery home delivery company, ZippGo aims to stop the usage of cardboard boxes during residential moves.
Using 100% consumer recycled plastic, each of ZippGo's reusable moving boxes can be used 400 times in turn saving 400 cardboard boxes and 4 trees during its lifetime. Boxes are delivered to your home a week before your move and picked up a week after by trucks powered with 100% recycled waste vegetable oil. Even better, renting ZippGo boxes is actually cheaper than buying the cardboard alternative. They have recycled, reusable packing supplies and wardrobe boxes available as well.
ZippGo is currently available in 64 Bay Area cities with rates starting as low as $119 for the one bedroom apartment package. This almost makes me eager to start planning my next move...almost.
(Image credit: Moving boxes by karensmonsters / Creative Commons)
posted originally from: AT:San Francisco
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Or you could just nip down to the nearest store and ask them if they have any cardboard boxes left from their deliveries. Chances are they're happy to give them away. That's what I do; I've never bought a single cardboard box in my entire life. Obviously this doesn't get rid of the problem that companies still largely use cardboard boxes, but it's still re-using something that would get thrown away otherwise, and it wouldn't require transportation (apart from your own legs, obviously), vegetable oil or otherwise.
view terrif20's profile
is he the previous owner of webvan?
this is a awesome idea ^_^
view simply_hibiscus's profile
LOVE this idea; wish it were more widespread across the country! I looked into this while moving from the Bay Area to the Midwest a few months ago and the only place that did this was in SoCal. So all you entrepreneurs - open up some Chicago/New York/Boston/Denver/Seattle branches!
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I just go to WalMart and grab boxes late at night...then when I am done moving and everything is unpacked, I sit the boxes on the curb and advertise on Craigslist. Works for me!
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This assumes you're going to have the time to pack in just a week and to unpack in just a week. I've moved over 15 times, and rarely has the unpacking happened so quickly. I wonder if you could keep the boxes longer than just a week after the move?
view Trish1980's profile
Why not buy and use stackable tubs? When I'm done unpacking from the move, they all stack well and go into storage or the closet. I've done this for years and will never go back to cardboard.
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