When you’re getting rid of waste, do you ever wonder where it ends up? Most of the time, it’s in landfills. With weekly collection schedules, this trash tends to pile up quickly. But there’s a better way. Before you toss another item, consider more sustainable junk removal options.

What’s Sustainable Junk Removal?

There are many ways to get rid of items you no longer want. While tossing them in the trash is easy, it’s contributing to the ever-growing landfills across the country and around the world. Plus, some of these items—including electronics—contain hazardous materials that could end up contaminating the air, water, and soil when not properly disposed. This is why sustainable junk removal is so important.

Sustainable junk removal options are designed to reduce the amount of landfill waste and potential contamination. Three key methods include recycling, donating, and composting items instead of throwing them away.

• Recycling. There are many valuable materials that can be stripped down and reused. Items made of metal, wood, plastic, and fabric can go on to live longer lives when they’re recycled or upcycled. Even if the item only contains some of these components, less will end up in a landfill if it’s repurposed.
• Donating. Just because you don’t want it anymore, doesn’t mean someone else can’t use it. Items in fair or new condition can find a new home when donated to family, neighbors, or local charities.
• Composting. Natural items—like yard clippings and untreated wood—can be broken down and brought back to the earth as compost to enhance lawns, gardens, and landscaping.

While it may take a little more work to break down an item for recycling or composting and find a place to donate it, it goes a long way to sustaining our environment. To make the process even easier, there are professional junk removal companies that can help.

JDog’s Environmental Efforts

JDog Junk Removal & Hauling offers eco-friendly residential and commercial junk removal. We reuse, recycle, resell, and repurpose your items whenever possible. Our full-service sustainable methods help keep 60-80% of the items we haul away out of the landfill. Many of our JDog locations partner with 501c3 charities to donate items or have resale businesses that donate proceeds to local charities. This effort not only supports the community but it also cuts down on our environmental footprint.

So before you place more junk in the trash, call 844-GET-JDOG to schedule a pick-up and do your part for the planet.