@verge Last two moves we used almost 50% plastic bins. When we were done they stacked up nicely in the basement and ready for our next move. The remaining cardboard boxes we donated to a neighbour who was moving rather than store then recycle years later.

Upside is the boss was moving and he was thinking about buying boxes and we let him borrow our bins and saved him a lot of money.

One other thing we did was use mailing labels with the room and content information on the top and side of the plastic bins. When we were done we peeled the labels off. No markers!

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"Plastic bins: better than boxes"

I remember a nice "service" our local grocery store used to provide the community. They would "hold" and not break down the better cardboard boxes they had received in case one of us customers might need them for moving. Sometimes you'd have to find the guy in the back and ask him to do this. Never had them say no. Way better than using new boxes and probably better than anything plastic!

#reduce_reuse_recycle #boxes #garbage #environment