Why Hiring Reusable Plastic Crates is Better for The Environment – Part 2
21st November 2011
Last week we started to look at why hiring reusable plastic crates was better for the environment and told you a little about helping reduce deforestation. This week, we’re going to look at another environmental benefit of using EasyCrate’s crate rental service – less landfill. Every year in the UK over 27 million tonnes of waste is deposited into landfill sites.
This waste is put into black bin bags by both households and businesses and left out for collection by the relevant local council. That’s often where the thought process stops for most individuals as their rubbish has been collected and they don’t need to know any more about it. But the fact of the matter is that this rubbish ends up in massive holes in the ground which are later covered with soil and grass seed. This land is very infertile due to the combination of waste and toxins that end up in the soil and can’t be used for anything productive.
If you choose to use cardboard packing boxes for your office move, the majority of this will later end up in landfill when it’s disposed of. Even if you put your unwanted cardboard packing out for recycling, a high proportion may still end up in land fill sites across the UK. This is because the cardboard has to be in a certain condition to be recycled into further cardboard.
If your packaging becomes wet or cross-contaminated at any point from being collected until it reaches the recycling plant, it is not fit to be recycled and simply ends up in landfill sites anyway. Although cardboard is bio-degradable and over time will naturally break down into the earth, if it has been wrapped or packed in plastic, this process will be severely delayed or may not happen at all.
The only way to avoid adding to landfill sites (intentionally or unintentially) is to use durable plastic moving crates for your move which can be hired from EasyCrate and returned for continued use around the UK. So you can see that by making a simple decision about your moving needs, you are actually making a decision about things with a much bigger knock on effect for the environment. To find out more about our office crates or to book some, please contact us.