{"id":4954,"date":"2019-04-27T09:39:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T08:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:09:22","slug":"green-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/green-packaging","title":{"rendered":"Green Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Green Packaging &#8211; Are you concerned about your carbon footprint and the impact you have on the environment? Your aim to have as sustainable and eco-friendly a lifestyle can be problematic when you\u2019re moving to a new house. That\u2019s because, in order to move to a new house, you need to put all of your belongings into boxes, and perhaps in the past when you\u2019ve moved that\u2019s meant ordering boxes online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are ways that you can have greener packaging though,\nif you put a little extra thought and planning into the removal process and\nactually think outside the box. In the following post, we will give you some\ntop tips for green packaging that will help not only reduce the negative impact\nyou have on the environment but reduce your moving costs somewhat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Reuses Boxes from\nSupermarkets<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve never done it before, it might feel a little weird\nat first, but trust us, all supermarkets expect customers to at some point to\ncome in and ask for cardboard boxes. In fact, it\u2019s doing the supermarket a\nfavour at meeting their recycling gaols. Most boxes that are used to delivery\ngoods to the shops can\u2019t be used again in store. Therefore, they\u2019re just\nwaiting to be taken away, and if they\u2019re not, they\u2019re crushed down and sent off\nto be recycled anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it\u2019s a bit of a pot luck as to the size of the boxes you get, if you do it with enough time in advance, you should be able to collect together enough boxes to pack away your home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the supermarkets don&#8217;t have enough and you&#8217;re forced to source some boxes try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfinder.co.uk\/companies\/eco-friendly-packaging\/\">Green Finder<\/a> who can point you in the direction of ethical and eco green packaging providers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Old Newspapers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you still read a newspaper? Does anyone? Well, some\npeople must, because they\u2019re still sold in newsagents, supermarkets and other\nshops up and down the country. Even if you don\u2019t, you might be able to find a\nrelative or neighbour who has some. They are great for using as packaging when\nyou\u2019re moving to a new house. Particularly, valuables like ceramics, glass and\nother fragile items. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a lot more cost-effective to than buying new wrapping\npaper and bubble wrap, that\u2019s for sure.&nbsp; Also,\nas you are repurposing the newspaper as packaging, you are helping to reduce\nneedlessly throwing away things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Clothes (Whether Old\nor New)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, you\u2019re not just going to be packing up your\nvaluables and sending them on to your new home but leaving your clothes behind.\nTherefore, you could kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, and use some\nof your clothes to wrap around the delicate and fragile items you need to pack\nup. For extra protection, if space permits, you could even wrap them up in\nnewspapers first and then clothing to ensure they don\u2019t move. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An even better idea would be if you have clothes you are going to throw away when you\u2019re moving out, you could keep some back and get one more use from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get quotes for moving your packages or house move visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\">home page<\/a> to get quotes from trusted transporters who can save more carbon by utilising empty space or return journeys and ave you up to 70% based on the cost of traditional transport methods. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Packaging &#8211; Are you concerned about your carbon footprint and the impact you have on the environment? Your aim to have as sustainable and eco-friendly a lifestyle can be problematic when you\u2019re moving to a new house. That\u2019s because, in order to move to a new house, you need to put all of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,36,41,49,40,114,64,35],"tags":[1197915,86,1197917],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6163,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}