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Reduce, Reuse And Recycle Whilst Moving Home. Environmentally Friendly Tips

It is to forget how to be environmentally friendly whilst you have the hassle of packaging and moving home. Below are some essential tips that will give you an easy to follow guide to ensure that you reduce, reuse and recycle has much as your possessions as possible in order to save less waste and money. 1.    It is important to start by shifting through your belongings as soon as you intend to move, it will be easier and more time efficient for you start sorting out on one room at a time, by doing so you save time as you there will be no need to go back over rooms and spaces that you have already been sorted. It will also be beneficial to have a separate boxes or containers in each room or space in which you want to sort through, this way you can have one for packing, one for selling, one for recycling and one for rubbish. 2.    Try and reuse or rent plastic boxes for your move, supermarkets are an ideal place to find different sized boxes to suit your requirements and the best thing is they are free, many companies have now gone green and offer the hiring of plastic containers, theses may be more suitable than cardboard boxes has they are more sturdier and stackable, generally companies will deliver the boxes straight to your door for ease of transportation. 3.    The items that you have arranged item that are for sale, these can be sold via online auctions, this will get your item exposed to numerous buyer for a small fee, or try an online newspapers that is generally a free service, if selling larger items then the buyer will come and collect saving you any hassle of moving or posting the items yourself. Weather permitting you can also do a few car boot sales where you can sell just about any item for a one off entry fee. 4.    What does not sell and items that you feel you cannot take with you, can always be donated to your local church, schools or charity shops most organisations will be more than happy to collect such item from your home. 5.    The less stuff that you take with you, the better this will be for yourself and the environment, as you will need to hire a smaller vehicle whilst transporting your goods, this saving the carbon footprint and also saving you money on hiring a smaller vehicle. 6.    Try swapping your cleaning agents to natural cleaning products instead of harsh chemicals whilst cleaning out your new or old home, these can be found in your kitchen cupboards can include items such as white vinegar, ideal for cleaning mirrors, tiles and glass, try combining vinegar with baking powered ideal for cleaning your toilet and sinks, citric acids are ideal to break down and clean the effects of lime scale. By using such cleaning methods not only get your home spotless, but are environmental and cost effective way of doing so. 7.    After you move ensure that you display a non-junk mail sign at your door, this will enable you not to receive unnecessary letters or flyers that you will never use or have no intentions of buying the product advertised.