How Young Adults Can Handle Recycling After a Large Move
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How Young Adults Can Handle Recycling After a Large Move

A big move can be a time of new prospects and chapters in your life.

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How Young Adults Can Handle Recycling After a Large Move

It can be stressful too, and it usually requires you to use quite a lot of resources to get everything from one place to the next safely. If you're stuck with a lot of moving supplies you won't use once the job is done, there is no need to toss them away. There are ways to recycle them for use later or to help the environment.

Compost

Compost is a form of recycling that can really give back to the environment. Not every single thing is ideal as compost in a garden or backyard, but the list of things that are is long. Even items such as cardboard boxes, paper towels, or napkins can morph into compost that is good for recycling. After your initial move, don't forget that vegetable peelings, shells, or empty bags of tea can also make great compost if done right.

Separating and Recycling

You'll probably use a combination of plastics and paper products during your move. Some items might be made from aluminum components as well. In any case, you can separate them into the appropriate piles. Even if you have a lot of stuff, this is easy enough to do with the help of skips. You can hire several of these large containers to store the refuse that you want to recycle later. Getting multiple skips could help you with the separation part of the process and make it easier to cart everything away.

Storage Boxes

Not every aspect of recycling has to be about throwing stuff out in an environmentally friendly way. Young adults tend to see the value in a good cardboard box where kids might only see a plaything. You can repurpose some of the boxes you used during the move to store clothes, equipment, or toys as a way to keep the new place looking organized and clean for as long as possible. If you're the festive type, these boxes make great containers to keep your seasonal decorations in when they're not in use.

Paying It Forward

Some local businesses would welcome your moving supplies as free donations that they can use in their daily operations. Any bubble wrap or packing peanuts you used that might still be in serviceable condition would be great additions to the post office in your area. There might be a few specialty businesses close to you that would be willing to recycle any sort of polystyrene materials at no cost to you and use them in other products.

With a little thinking that ventures outside of that cardboard box you used to transport your stuff, there are different ways to recycle your moving supplies. Don't be afraid to get a bit creative with your ideas here. You don't necessarily need to recycle everything in the most traditional sense. Some of the plastic wrapping or foam padding that you might have used could become your next arts and crafts project.

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