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Removals: an adventure and opportunity to practice sustainability Networks

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I recently moved from floor. Here are some ideas that occur to me to make responsible use criteria of :




1. The first thing is to identify what you want to bring to your next home. Liberate! Check ballast! A move is an ideal opportunity to ask what is needed and what is not. Therefore, it is ideal that serves not to put the battery back to zero, but to change our habits of mindless accumulation.

2. What they do not want to take, what separates serves and is still in good condition or needing only a small repair. Who can want?

• Ask friends, acquaintances or close associations if they want. Use
• recycling networks. You will be surprised how well they work and how quickly you spend your old radio, you do not use that shelf or anything else. You come to find the fridge or sofa you will also be helpful if you leave the house empty.
• can put an ad in spaces such as NGOs CanalSolidario.org Bulletin Board
• can assign it to projects like SocialBid , a company that manages auction to raise funds for NGOs.
• If clothes, donate it to a social project as Amiga Clothing ( here, the link in Catalan).

3. Have not found anyone who wants your old washing machine? As you know, if the low to the street (in each city varies with the rules on this) will do a favor to your future boss-passer if you hang a poster of 'works' or 'works but does not spin', etc. And if you leave a bag that cupboard with nails, etc.


4. What to do with anything that can no longer be reused in any way? Sure, throw it away ... But one thing at a bucket! Seem obvious, but I get the feeling that many people who habitually separates waste when the move is not as scrupulous, because it requires a lot of additional overtime work per se implies a move. And is that going to empty the drawers and shelves full of old papers, you must entertain to separate the metal spiral or plastic binders of paper books, pulling the bag with lots of small tools to look out item by item, etc . is important beyond the daily use cubes from the beginning of the move prepare the box or boxes green dot, as in moving out a lot of waste that must go there, as electronic equipment, cables, paint, batteries and more.


5. Finally, if you order the transport of your furniture and belongings to a moving company , find out before the conditions under which employees work. By making our move, we fell the soul to the ground when we realized how to work those who came home: at first thought not stop eating and seemed determined to pull 12 hours (at our insistence finally stopped ... only 20 minutes!), slept in the truck and numbered days at that pace. Sure, the company was the cheapest ... but at what price.

And that's all I can think of for now. Follow these tips takes longer to do the typical removal of "all this, throw in one fell swoop" or "all these things I'm taking them to continue having them but not use them." And in a move, time of change, purpose, restatements, and white sheets around the corner promising. Ando