Tips For Moving

If you have spent any considerable amount of time on this planet, then you know that moving homes is an absolute nightmare most of the time. I think most people can agree that, whether you are moving to a new house, apartment, condo, dorm room, or elsewhere, it is usually a very stressful time. I have moved a handful of times in my life, and I have learned about small things you can do along the way to make the moving experience just a little bit easier. No one wants to deal with the added stress of moving while still having to raise kids, work a full time job, and fulfill other responsibilities and commitments. However, sometimes life can just be that busy and there is not another way around it. It is in times like these that I hope this article reaches people and that it can be of some help to you.

The first tip I have for you is to create a moving budget. Let’s face it, life is expensive all on its own, even without the added cost of buying a new place and moving all your stuff to where it needs to be. Moving can quickly sneak up behind you and turn your bank account into a much smaller number before you even know it. That is why I highly suggest that you make a moving budget beforehand - this will allow you to make rough estimates about how much money you will be spending in each part of the moving process and will hopefully help to alleviate your stress along the way. It will also help you to feel more in control of what is going on with your bank account! One thing you might want to consider is that your move will cost more or less depending on several different factors. One of these factors is a moving company or hired movers.

Like I just mentioned, movers can be an important part of your moving process if you choose to hire any. While you will be spending a bit more upfront to cover the cost of the moving company, you will feel a lot less pressure when it comes time to load up all your stuff and move across the country all by yourself. If you do end up hiring a moving company, make sure it is a company that you can trust and that will give you a fair price. One way to ensure that both these things are done right is to compare several different companies and seek out customer reviews from each one. That way, you can ensure that you are getting the best bang for your buck. 

Another piece of advice I have for you is to spend some time looking around for moving boxes. Don’t feel like you have to buy cardboard boxes online or anything like that, because there are hundreds of places in which you can get cardboard boxes relatively cheap or even free. I know that there used to be a grocery store in my hometown that would set aside produce and dairy boxes to hand out to customers that needed boxes for moving or something else. They did not really advertise it, but certain people knew about it and would come by from time to time to get boxes. Look for this in your area too!

The Problem with Biodegradable Alternatives for food Packaging

Biodegradable alternatives for food packaging are considered the solution to the plastics problem, but there is a problem with this. Packaging plays a huge role in being sustainable, but consumers sometimes hear about the oceans that are made of garbage and the discarded packaging, and they want to figure out a way to use biodegradable packaging.  If we use this, it’ll offer more spaces in the landfills and not pollute the oceans, right? That’s where people are wrong. The degradable packaging waste is a cool idea but not the right answer for a few reasons, such as the following: 

• The compounds that remain released aren’t intended for oceans and lands

• They usually are more complicated than just getting a plastic bottle from the roadside or the waters too 

• They aren’t environmentally sustainable in terms of design and packaging, and properly collecting and sorting packaging for the correct disposal is not that. 

So if we know that the degrading packaging is the wrong answer, why is this still an option then? That’s because there’s an issue with the degrading packaging waste, since it’s being pushed as a solution. Besides the old additives that currently are in disfavor, there’s a lot of new ones, and they usually are considered distractors, which work to take our attention off of all of this and off of the big problem at hand. Usually, they also take away from the environment that’s there, and for most part, we oftentimes don’t’ look at the food packaging as much, and what it contains. The distractors do include the biotechnology that promotes biodegradation and the degradation of products period. 

Some background 

OXOs do promote degradation in water and on land, and it was adopted as unofficial type of product, and this has a lot of problems to it. For starters, there’s a lot of additives that cause degradation, and they were originally banned because they do ruin the packaging, which does increase the pollution. 

The disposal of this too is quite hard, and it doe impact the environment as well around people too. Other packaging which can be used definitely is hard to recover, and usually it either gets incinerated, or thrown into landfills. Some can be degraded in facilities, but they need to be controlled, and when research showed the degradation of the packaging being uncontrolled and would release a lot of compounds, mostly plastic and paperboard, this definitely caused a lot of concern, and the environmental disasters are so obvious, so bad that the OXOs have been banned in some places, such as the UE and the like. The sustainable packaging coalition is another one that frowns upon this. 

There are still some other companies trying to promote this, so it’s obvious that people didn’t learn from the first time. The new distractors are definitely causing generalized degradation, which isn’t to be desired in a lot of cases, and the biodegradation releases from this do create toxins which can impact our landfills, which covers a lot of space, including where crops are grown. 

This is relevant to the distractors because this can claim to induce the biodegradation of the packaging, and it seems to create a problem in the packaging materials, which then diffuse there. The environment is from there not as controlled, nor is it as responsible, so it’s obvious that this type of plastic packaging is definitely not going to be happy about any of this. With that said, avoid product packaging which utilizes OXOs, since it’s harmful for the environment, and hurts more than helps in most cases.