Why HDPE moving boxes over traditional cardboard boxes?

Why HDPE moving boxes over traditional cardboard boxes?

Here are some of the reasons we started this business.

 

Key Benefits of HDPE:
  • Water and weather resistant
  • Made from 100% recycled materials
  • Once the box reaches end of life, they are sent back to be ground down and create new boxes.
  • Stackable (up to 5 high with a moldable dolly for ease of movement)
  • built in handles for easy moving
  • Sustainable and Reusable (eco-friendly)
  • Cost Effective
  • High chemical resistance.
  • Excellent impact resistance.
  • Delivered and Picked up free within our set area

 

Issues with using traditional cardboard boxes:

  • Cannot withstand the weight sometimes associated with stacking
  • Responsibility of mover to purchase or get from another mover
  • Responsibility of owner to dispose of or recycle
  • Susceptible to water damage, endangering your belongings
  • Bad for environment as most end up in landfills
  • can contain bugs and rodents
  • The money saved on cardboard boxes is minimal and without the included benefits we offer.

 

Costs of recycling cardboard:

  • Costly to cities to separate, clean and break down materials
  • Recycling centers are unhygienic and unsafe (harmful for employees)
  • Studies show government loss using recycling
  • More energy consumption and pollution

Costs of Cardboard boxes ending up in landfills:

  • Recycling one ton of cardboard saves over 9 cubic yards of landfill space.
  • As much as 30% of cardboard boxes end up in landfills

 

Sources: 

https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-recycling.php

 

https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/paper-and-paperboard-material-specific-data

 

 

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