Renting a Moving Truck?
Monday July 21, 2008
Before you plan your move, you need to decide how you're going to move: hire a moving company or rent a moving truck and load it yourself.
To save money and if you're not moving too far, you may consider renting a truck and getting friends and family to help pack it. But before you do, check out How to Rent a Moving Truck - in Pictures to find out what you need to know before you sign the rental agreement.
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Just moved and unlike the past I did NOT purchase my boxes from the moving company!!! I went ahead and googles for moving boxes, shipping boxes, cheap boxes and packing supplies and I found a great green company called UsedCardboardBoxes.com who shipped my boxes at a fraction of what I’ve paid the moving company and they delivered in 2 days for free. I just have to pass this tip on…I can’t resist they saved me $$$ and time!!
Just moved and unlike the past I did NOT purchase my boxes from the moving company!!! I went ahead and googled for moving boxes, shipping boxes, cheap boxes and packing supplies and I found a great green company called UsedCardboardBoxes.com who shipped my boxes at a fraction of what I’ve paid the moving company and they delivered in 2 days for free. I just have to pass this tip on…I can’t resist they saved me $$$ and time!!
Hi,
I still can’t figure out having UPS or whatever carrier air freight, distribute, transport, and then finally deliver used boxes as very “earth friendly”, in terms of the amount of foreign oil consumed, CO2 created and waste entering our landfills; just to deliver used cardboard boxes direct to a customer’s door. Although reusing used cardboard was a good idea when fuel was super cheap and easy to get, the method of delivery is really based on an old school industry and mentality… Hey let’s burn up a ton of foreign oil to deliver these boxes that will end up in a landfill, as the cost to recycle them with the price per gallon of fuel near $5.00 is just not practical.
So the real pitch here is buy a used cardboard box, waste time messing with fussy tape to build the box, waste a bunch a fuel transporting it around, release a ton of C02 emissions into the atmosphere and pack our landfills with a bunch of trash. This is the reality when you buy a new, used or recycled cardboard box.
We have a real simple idea and we think our idea makes more sense. Let’s take tons of our hard to recycle plastic trash that will never breakdown in our landfills (detox 4 landfills), make really cool boxes that can be used over 400 round trip times at the fraction of the energy used to make a disposable box ( and when they are expired- we grind them up to make another Recopack- zero waste!) and then deliver them on waste veggie oil and algae based bio-fuels. We figure out exactly what you need, so no trips extra to the store, no messy tape. Just open the box and start packing. It’s moving made easy! When you’re done, call us and we’ll come by and pick them up!
Check out the new video airing on the fine living network and see for yourself that using a cardboard box is really not saving – but costing all of us in the long term:
It’s Easy Being Green:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y-g8DYsVyu8
Have you ever tried PODS? What’s your opinion of them? Are they much easier than renting a truck?
Spencer: You seem to be forgetting that new boxes would have to be shipped to the door/picked up as well, likely from much further away. Old boxes that aren’t reused would have to be transported to the landfill/recycling facility. Used boxes win over new in the shipping/delivery department.
There is definitely energy wasted to pickup used boxes and then redeliver. Our service removes this inefficiency by connecting used box buyers and sellers directly in a hassle-free way. It allows for much lower prices as well. However, even with an intermediary pickup, envrionmental cost of shipping is unlikely to be worse than a wash between used and new.
Reuseable packaging is a wonderful idea, but there is a tremendous environmental cost to manufacturing (and recycling). If a package is used 400 times than this cost is divded by 400, but it’s still there. The used box is already made; there is virtually no cost. Environmental impact of delivery exists with reusable packaging as well and is likely much higher due to higher weight.