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Spencer Brown, the founder and President, says that "America prides itself on its ingenuity- but despite tremendous technological advnaces, we haven't changed the way we move from home to home in more than 200 years... We still use the same disposable, environmentally disastrous packing materials and methods we did in the 1700s."

The basis of the Earth Friendly Moving system is the RecoPack (which stands for REcycled ECOlogical PACking Solution), which is a series of lightweight, stackable containers, which are designed and manufactured from hard to recycle plastic waste, like detergent bottles and oil bottles. For every 100 RecoPack containers rented, Brown says he eliminates 256 pounds of trash destined for the country's landfills. They also offer recycled post-consumer packing paper, corn-based packing tape, even a RecoCube, which is a biodegradable loose-fill cube made from paper sludge, that can be used as fertilizer after the move.

If you are planning a move in the near future, consider contacting Earth Friendly Moving. Find out all the information here at their website.