The Aftermath
This weekend, though we had friends in town (more on that later), Nick and I managed to get a few things done. We had a very large and broken TV sitting behind the couch (for a year) - that's been recycled. There were two large piles for the Goodwill - delivered to the donation bin. The last big project on my list started here:
Yes, it all started with my recent wedding. Gifts started rolling in back in February or March, sometimes every day! There weren't many at the wedding, most were delivered. This left me with quite a lot of box recycling and worst of all - MASSES of packing peanuts. It took weeks to get them consolidated into 3 gigantic boxes. Those boxes have been sitting in the living room since before the wedding. Well, the solution came to me via a customer. She came by to pick up her order and suggested giving those peanuts to a shipping store. I just about lost my mind with excitement, and it's exactly what I did.
I called my local Mailboxes Etc. & asked the dude (he was a total "dude") on the phone if I could donate packing peanuts and he replied, "yep". So now that's done too. My living room is now twice the size and I can sleep at night knowing I didn't throw away 8 tons of polystyrene. Sweet!
Other places that might help keep packing materials out of the landfill:
-The UPS Store
-PostNet
-FedEx/Kinko's
-More info on recycling polystyrene packing material - including the bulky stuff.
