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Infographic: Are You a Hoarder?
From: Are You a Hoarder
I thought this was kind of fun. Of course, our company does reach out and help many people who are impacted by chronic disorganization and hoarding tendencies, please don’t consider this a professional diagnosis 
Thanks to our friends at MyMove.com for providing this light-hearted info-graphic. MyMove.com is a trusted resource where you can find move information, products and savings to streamline and save long after the moving truck has pulled away.
People that make us happy: Claire Baker
- Our Twin Cities guys with Claire Baker
Claire Baker is a 15 year old Minnesota student who hopes to collect 25,000 pairs of shoes in order to distribute them to those in need. With support from her family, friends, school, church and our top-notch Twin Cities franchise, Claire is well on her way. There are now over 7,000 pairs of shoes living in our 1-800-GOT-JUNK? warehouse and 8,000 more stored at various schools and churches throughout Minneapolis…all of which Claire is responsible for facilitating. Read more…
Lost Cell Phone Blues and Highs
The moment I realized my cell phone was missing, I was standing in a holding lounge at the Seattle airport with my co-worker, Natalie, waiting to get onto a plane to fly us back home to Vancouver. Even though I suffered the instant realization that I would not have my cell phone back for at least a day or two, it was surreal. Using Natalie’s phone we called the shoe department of Macy’s where we’d spent a glorious hour before our meeting earlier that day. This turned up nothing and we were prompted to go and drink beer and wine while waiting for the boarding call. Read more…
Getting Ready for Earth Day
International Earth Day is April 22nd, but now is the time to check your local community events listings to find out how you can contribute or participate. Around the world, companies, individuals, and communities are showing their environmental initiative by organizing events that encourage us all to reduce our collective environmental footprint. So consider this your call to action to “mobilize the earth!”
Things that make us happy: Eco-Artware
With the millions of messages we receive daily in our Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter world, it’s difficult for anything to actually make us look up from Draw Something long enough to register a unique idea. Luckily, a good friend of mine pointed this company out to me via email. I was “waiting for their move” on Draw Something so I clicked the link and…fell in love. Read more…
Your future grandchildren won’t want those old toys!
1-800-GOT-MILK?
Imagine this: You have a storage room filled to the brim with baby things—games, clothes, toys, a stroller—but you don’t have a baby. In fact, you haven’t had a baby in 20 years. The question is: why do you have a room of baby things? The answer may be this: you’re saving it for your future grandchildren. That’s right—you’ve already made plans for your kids to have kids, and you’ve already planned their first few years of personal belongings. Sounds great, right? Well, this isn’t always the best idea—and here’s why.
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PR 2012 Video – From the company Oprah told you about
It’s not easy being green (…and blue!)
Ain't no mountain (of recycled metal) high enough!
My favorite quote from the little puppet frog actually describes a major difficulty faced by today’s generations: as much as environmentalism is now at the forefront for many, it’s not always easy to act sustainably.
Many municipalities offer curbside recycling or companies like 1-800-GOT-JUNK? are available to pick up your disposables, but once the trash has left your house, where does it go? To recycling depots, or to the landfill? The likelihood of each of these outcomes depends on the community—where does yours rank? Read more…
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Inside a Landfill – Part 2
Courtesy of Seeds of Change
While landfills across the country are modernizing to enhance biodegradability, space is still a big concern. We are disposing at such a rate that it’s difficult for the earth to keep up. Landfills may be employing technology to protect the environment, but when our stuff gets packed into the earth in such a way that there is no oxygen, how can the microbes that break down the material survive to do their job?
Many years ago, a professor at the University of Arizona formed a group called the Garbage Project to find out just what is in our landfills. Surprisingly, Dr. William Rathje discovered what we think degrades quickly, doesn’t always. For example, in 1989 his team dug up a newspaper from 1952 that could be read perfectly. And I think we’ve all heard how long hotdogs last in the landfill?
The lesson here is that we all have junk that may end up in the landfill some day, and keeping paper and food waste out of the landfill could save precious space that is required to allow landfill materials to properly degrade. With space, oxygen allows enzymes and microbes to thrive and efficiently break down stuff in landfills.
According to Michigan Technological University, many landfills nowadays are experimenting with injecting water, oxygen, and even living organisms into the earth to promote biodegradation. Unfortunately, this is a costly process that is difficult to administer on a continual basis. Another solution is to segment compostable materials, including food, paper, and green waste, thereby efficiently dealing with a massive amount of landfill deposits.
The best thing of course that we can do is to recycle and compost as many biodegradable items as we can and only send non-recyclable material to the landfill.
Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers and 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
We were honored to help out the Sather family clean their messy house recently as a part of Dr. Drew’s new show, Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers. Sometimes the only thing people need in their lives is some space back!
Check out the transformation:
