The Earth is warming up, climate is beginning to shift, and humanity is the direct cause. Unless we collectively and globally begin to radically reduce our carbon dioxide emissions the world we leave to our children and our grandchildren will be vastly different and vastly worse than the world we currently live in. 

Green Clean Junk Removal is committed to preserving our environment for the generations yet to come. This is why we’re a junk removal service that is committed to achieving a 95% recycle rate for all trash, junk, and garbage we collect by 2014. Green Clean Junk Removal Services also plans to replace all our gasoline and diesel burning trucks with green fuel source trucks by 2016. In the meantime, Green Clean Junk Removal Services is taking steps to limit emissions from our truck fleet with proper maintenance and care.

Our commitment to the environment is one more reason we hope you choose Green Clean Junk Removal Services. Climate change cannot be stopped by one person, or one company, or even one country. A commitment to change, a commitment to a greener planet, and a commitment to a more environmentally sound view of life will take all of us. 

Green Clean Junk Removal Services stands ready to help.

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Now actor Jeremy Irons is trying to bring attention to the problem of trash. In his new documentary “Trashed” Jeremy irons is trying to raise awareness about trash removal and sound the alarm before our future is buried in a wave of garbage past. 

From CBSNews.com:

“I wanted to make a documentary about something which I thought was important and which was curable,” he said. “It’s not rocket science. It takes a little effort, it takes a little thought. It takes a little education. I think most people want to do what is right. But they need a bit of organization. 

“We make everybody wear seatbelts now. That was a bore, wasn’t it? But we do it, and we don’t think about it anymore. Very simple to do the same with how we deal with our garbage.”

Jeremy Irons is bringing a much needed voice to our fight against trash and garbage. We all could be recycling more and throwing away a lot less. And Green Clean Junk Removal Services applauds Irons for his efforts. 

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But in Oslo, Norway the city is faced with the complete opposite problem. Too little trash.

From New York Times: 

Oslo, a recycling-friendly place where roughly half the city and most of its schools are heated by burning garbage — household trash, industrial waste, even toxic and dangerous waste from hospitals and drug arrests — has a problem: it has literally run out of garbage to burn.

The problem is not unique to Oslo, a city of 1.4 million people. Across Northern Europe, where the practice of burning garbage to generate heat and electricity has exploded in recent decades, demand for trash far outstrips supply. “Northern Europe has a huge generating capacity,” said Mr. Mikkelsen, 50, a mechanical engineer who for the last year has been the managing director of Oslo’s waste-to-energy agency.

Burning garbage for energy hasn’t caught on in the United States, and with the rise of solar and wind power, probably won’t ever catch on as a viable alternate energy source, but the United States may soon be providing Northern Europe’s energy in the form of burnable garbage.

Green Clean Junk Removal Services provides garbage removal and trash removal services to the Los Angeles and New York Areas. 

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Think these risks are overhyped? This story comes from WPXI in Pittsburgh:

PITTSBURGH — 

Firefighters battled smoke and flames at an abandoned store front late Thursday night in Homewood.

The fire was reported at a building on Frankstown Avenue about 11:30 p.m.

Assistant Fire Chief Thomas Cook said garbage and other junk inside the building made it difficult for crews to extinguish the flames.

“It looked like hoarding conditions, therefore we kept all the firefighters out and attacked the fire from the outside,” Cook said.

If you know someone who is hoarding, try to get them help as soon as possible. Green Clean Junk Removal Services provides hoarders junk removal.

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This comes from the Clean Air Council:

 

The average American office worker uses about 500 disposable cups every year.

 

Every year, Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons to circle the equator 300 times.

 

During 2009’s International Coastal Cleanup, the Ocean Conservancy found that plastic bags were the second-most common kind of waste found, at 1 out of ten items picked up and tallied.

 

Over 7 billion pounds of PVC are thrown away in the U.S. each year. Only 18 million pounds of that, about one quarter of 1 percent, is recycled.

 

Chlorine production for PVC uses almost as much energy as the annual output of eight medium-sized nuclear power plants each year.

 

The state of California spends about 25 million dollars sending plastic bags to landfill each year, and another 8.5 million dollars to remove littered bags from streets.

 

Every year, Americans use approximately 1 billion shopping bags, creating 300,000 tons of landfill waste.

 

Plastic bags do not biodegrade. Light breaks them down into smaller and smaller particles that contaminate the soil and water and are expensive and difficult to remove.⁶

 

Less than 1 percent of plastic bags are recycled each year. Recycling one ton of plastic bags costs $4,000. The recycled product can be sold for $32.⁶

 

When the small particles from photodegraded plastic bags get into the water, they are ingested by filter feeding marine animals. Biotoxins like PCBs that are in the particles are then passed up the food chain, including up to humans.

 

Airports and airlines recycle less than 20 percent of the 425,000 tons of passenger-related waste they produce each year.

 

The estimated 2.6 billion holiday cards sold each year in the U.S. could fill a football field 10 stories high.

 

Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, an extra million tons of waste is generated each week.

 

38,000 miles of ribbon are thrown away each year, enough to tie a bow around the Earth.

 

In 2008, Paper and paperboard made up 31% of municipal waste. Plastics were 12%.

 

In 2008, only 23.1% of glass disposed of was recycled, and only 7.1% of plastics and 21.1% of aluminum.

 

About 31% of MSW generated in the US in 2008 was containers and packaging, or 76,760 thousand tons. Only 43.7% of that was recycled.

 

In 2008, the average amount of waste generated by each person in America per day was 4.5 pounds. 1.1 pounds of that was recycled, and .4 pounds, including yard waste, was sent to composting. In total, 24.3% of waste was recycled, 8.9% was composted, and 66.8% was sent to a landfill or incinerated. 

 

The average American employee consumes 2.5 cans of soda each day at work.

 

The beverage industry used 46 percent less packaging in 2006 than in 1990, even with a 24 percent increase in beverage sales in that time.

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The average person generates about 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, 29 pounds total per week, and 1,600 pounds of trash per year. That sounds like a shocking amount but if you think about the amount of trash you take out every week it makes sense.

Now imagine reducing your yearly trash footprint to something that could fit inside a quart-sized jar. Sound impossible? Well one California family did it.

From Forbes.com:

Five years ago Bea Johnson and her husband and two sons were looking for a home closer to the restaurants, shops and school in their coastal California town.

During the year they spent house hunting, the family of four moved into a small apartment, took only the possessions that were absolutely necessary and left the rest in storage.

“After living with just the necessities, we realized that we had much more time to spend with our family when we weren’t spending it caring for a large house and lots of belongings,” says Johnson.

Then, when they did decide on a house, they chose one half the size of their previous home and simplified by selling most of their old stuff.

Around that time, Johnson and her husband began investigating environmental issues. “We read books, watched documentaries, and what we learned worried us and made us sad for our kids’ futures,” she says. “So we decided to do something about it. My husband quit his job to start a sustainability consulting company, and I tackled greening our house.”

It was then that Johnson devised a system to reduce the family’s garbage—she calls it the Zero Waste Home. She started by swapping everything disposable in their home (paper towels, water bottles, grocery bags) for reusables.

Today, she says, her family’s yearly waste can fit in a quart-size jar.

Simplifying and decluttering your life is the mantra Green Clean Junk Removal Services lives by. You don’t need as much stuff as you think you need. And frankly you are better off without a lot of the things you think you need. While most of us won’t be able to reduce our trash footprint to zero, by decluttering and simplifying our lives, we can all lead happier lives and protect the Earth for the next generation.

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From a story on LAist.com:  

A bill for a statewide ban on single-use plastic shopping bags is up for consideration, backed by Los Angeles-based state senator Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima).

SB 405 “would phase out single-use plastic bags in California grocery stores, convenience stores, liquor stores, and pharmacies,” according to Padilla.

“SB 405 will help protect our environment by phasing out single-use plastic bags in California. Single-use plastic bags fill our landfills, clog inland waterways, litter our coastline, and kill thousands of fish, marine mammals and seabirds,” said Senator Alex Padilla in a release posted to his site.

If passed, the ban would take effect January 1, 2015 at grocery stores and pharmacies. In July 2016, convenience stores and liquor stores would be required to meet the same standard. SB 405 would not pre-empt local ordinances already in place governing limitations on single-use plastic bags.

The proposed legislation made progress Wednesday, when the Senate Environmental Quality Committee today approved the bill. The bill remains pending in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

I’ve long been a big proponent of using reusable grocery bags to limit trash and clutter. Using reusable grocery bag also help protect our natural resources and limit our oil consumption. So if you haven’t invested in reusable grocery bags yet, time to do so. 

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Probably not, is my default answer. We really don’t need half the things we tell ourselves we need. We just want it, or fall into the Madison Avenue trap of thinking that its something we’ve got to have because …. X.

So an essential part of stopping clutter before its starts is asking yourself, Do I need this? Will I use this?  What Should I Get Rid of to Make Way for this New Thing? 

Personally, if I buy new jeans for instance, I am going to give away an old pair to charity. I don’t need an old pair and a new pair of jeans, but someone somewhere else probably could use my old jeans. The same goes for more mundane items like silverware, plates, and appliances.

Buying only what you need and constantly churning through the old items you don’t need in your life is a time honored strategy for fighting and winning the battle against clutter.

If you need help getting rid of junk and clutter call Green Clean Junk Removal Services. We’re your local Los Angeles solution to junk hauling and trash removal. 

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Now researchers have found trash vortexes in the Great Lakes. 

According to The Atlantic:

 Lorena Rios-Mendoza, an oceanographer at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, is one of the scientists who’ve plunged the polluted depths of American lakes. Her team recently sampled sections of Lake Erie – which can’t seem to catch a break these days, what with its mercury infection and rashes of poisonous algae – and discovered that the water’s been invaded by great quantities of microplastics mostly smaller than grains of rice. Specifically, they measured concentrations between 1,500 and 1.7 million particles per square mile, which is 24 percent greater than what they found in the Atlantic Ocean’s debris field.

 These trash vortexes can harm marine life. Birds and fish frequently die from eating indigestible  plastics. Marine life either dies from intestinal blockages caused by plastics or starvation because ingesting plastic can create a false sense of satiation in animals.

The garbage piles and trash vortexes are some of the reasons Green Clean Junk Removal Services continues to do what we do. We have a commitment to our customers and we also have a commitment to the environment. Our trash removal and junk removal services help keep debris out of landfills and ultimately out of the ocean and lakes.

But we can’t do it all by ourselves. We need your help. If you need to declutter, get rid of junk, or throwaway trash do it the right way. Call Green Clean Junk Removal Services.

The fish will thank you. 

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Green Clean Junk Removal Services supports the local economy by providing commercial junk removal and hauling service’s to many of Los Angeles’ businesses.

We haul the construction debris for Los Angeles’ builders and contractors. We clean out and break down offices for Los Angeles’ film production companies. We pick up and haul away trash from major events at L.A. Live and Nokia Theater. Green Clean Junk Removal Services is a local junk removal services that supports the local economy.

We also support the community and residents of Los Angeles. Our junk removal services help people declutter, simplify, and better their lives. In return, the residents of Los Angeles reward Green Clean Junk Removal Services with plenty of return customers and great reviews. 

So when you are shopping around for junk removal services choose a local junk removal service that supports your community. 

Choose Green Clean Junk Removal Service.

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