1. Get Rid of Old Junk

Look around your backyard. Still have that old swing set and jungle gym from 1984 when your kids were two? How about that old gas grill that doesn’t work? Oh, and don’t forget about that lawn furniture you left out for two winters in a row. Nothing ruins the attractiveness of a backyard like worn junk.

Get rid of it. You can call a junk removal service like Green Clean Junk Removal Services to haul away your old junk. You can also donate items that are still in good condition to charity, especially play sets like swings or jungle gyms. 

2. Haul Away Yard Debris

Winter and spring can wreck your backyard. When I was a child my Dad and I would spend two Summer weekends hauling away trees that had either buckle under the weight of an Indiana winter, or that had snapped in during the spring thunderstorms. 

Even in the relatively calm climate of Los Angeles I’ve found myself racking up leaves, yanking up weeds, and hauling away tree limbs that have snapped during one of L.A.’s famous Santa Ana Winds. Luckily, most yard waste can be repurposed into compost. 

3. Add Some New Plants

Is the backyard looking a bit dull? Go buy some new plants to spruce up your surroundings. Plant a garden; mix in some vegetables that will grow in your climate and some flowers. There is nothing quite as good as eating a tomato or cucumber you’ve grown yourself.

4. Mow

Ah, yes, everyone’s favorite task. But mowing really isn’t that bad, especially if you have a relatively small backyard. Remember to mow in straight lines and overlap as you mow. Also remember to beat the heat. Mow early in the morning instead of middle of the afternoon.

5. Bring Out the Furniture

Time to enjoy your backyard. Bring out the lawn furniture and the grill. Need new furniture? A clean backyard is a great excuse to buy the patio furniture you’ve always wanted. Make sure you store your lawn furniture correctly after Summer is done to ensure it has a long life.

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And it is totally unnecessary. There is no need to spend a weekend cleaning out a garage, year after year. This dismal doom can be mostly avoided by taking control of your garage. Here are five ways to show your garage who is boss. 

1. Keep Your Cars in Your Garage

This is a piece of advice that is so obvious it sounds counterintuitive. One of the best ways to keep your garage clean and organized is to use your garage for your cars. You can’t fill a garage with junk when your car is in the way. Right?

Right.

Not to mention storing your car in a garage spares your car’s paint job a pounding from the weather and will lower your car insurance premiums. 

2. Hang Your Tools on a Peg Board 

When of your dining room chairs has a loose screw that is threatening to collapse the entire chair. You say to yourself, Hey, I can fix that! I just need to grab a screwdriver from the garage! Two hours later you’ve located four stuffed animals, a pair of pliers, some loose bolts, and a hammer. But no screwdriver.

There is an easy and cool solution. Hang your tools on the wall. You can either arrange your tools on a peg board, a rack, or specialized hangers. This also gives you an excuse to bring that work bench you’ve always wanted. What else compliments a showroom of tools better than a work bench? 

When you are finished organizing your tools grab a couple of empty coffee tins and start organizing your screws, nails, bolts, nuts, etc. One coffee tin for screws, one coffee tin for nails, and so on. Depending on the type of Do-It-Yourself jobs you do you may want to get even more granular — a coffee can for wood screws and another coffee can for machine screws. 

You can also use store bought organizers to store fasteners and screws, but I tend to like coffee cans. There is something deeply nostalgic about fishing a screw out of an repurpose Folger’s tin.

3. Install Shelving 

There are a ton of shelving solutions that are aimed squarely at getting your boxes off the floor. You can buy free standing shelving or shelves that screws (or bolts) directly to the wall. You can even find garage shelving that is designed to hang down from your garage’s rafters (this is an ideal way to store infrequently used stuff like ladders.

Another way you can get boxes off the floor is to install quarter inch plywood boards running across the rafters of your garage. This can serve as an “garage attic” where you can store seasonal items like Christmas decorations.

If you’ve made an effort to carefully install shelving do yourself another favor and buy some sealable plastic boxes. Plastic boxes will last a lot longer (possibly forever) than cardboard boxes and do a better job of protecting the stuff you are trying to store. 

4. Label Everything

Either buy a label maker or a couple rolls of masking tape and a marker. Now label everything. Even if you know what is in a box today, label it. Why? This will prevent you from the, “Well I know the Christmas decorations are in THERE!” syndrome. Labeling keeps you from guessing and prevents you from making a mess when you guess wrong. 

If you want to get really serious, after packing a box for storage, write out an inventory list of what’s in the box (1 Xmas wreaths, 4 boxes Christmas bulbs). This technique is particularly effective if you have multiple boxes filled with similar items (.i.e. Christmas decorations).

5. Don’t Store Used Chemicals

Paint, household cleaners, and automotive fluids are all considered household hazardous waste and you can’t put them in your normal curbside side trash. So many people store used chemicals in their garage. This is a bad idea on multiple levels of bad.

Firstly, an excess number of poorly store chemicals creates a fire hazard that can damage or destroy your home. Secondly, chemicals laying around your garage pose a hazard to small kids and pets. Instead of storing household hazardous chemicals drop them off at a city approved drop off center. Or call a hauling service like Green Clean Junk Removal Services to haul away old paints, cleaners, etc.

Getting control over your garage takes a little time, a little effort, and a lot of planning. But the results can be amazing. You not only reduce clutter but you turn your garage into another show piece inside your home. 

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But Green Clean Junk Removal Services can’t do it all. We need your help. Here are five simple tips for keeping your community clean.

1. Recycle

If you aren’t recycling, start recycling. Most major cities make recycling easier by providing blue recycle bins to both homeowners and apartment renters. And, depending on your waste management service, you don’t have to sort papers, cans, and bottles into separate bins. Make sure you wash out your recyclables however and don’t mix trash in with your recyclables. 

2. Don’t Litter 

We’ve been hearing this since the mid-1950s, but people still continue to litter. Stop it! Litter drives down the quality of life in your community, helps spread vermin and disease, and causes thousands of accidents a year. There is absolutely no good reason to litter.  

3. Reduce Consumption

The average person in the United States generates roughly 1,600 pounds of trash per year. Yes, you read that right. 1,600 pounds per year. And a lot of that trash is in the form of disposable plastic bags and plastic water bottles. You can reduce the amount of garbage you generate by reducing your consumption. Carry a reusable water bottle and refill it. Buy reusable grocery bags. Prepare and cook your own meals and avoid prepared, pre-packaged foods. These are small but proactive measures you can take to reduce the amount of garbage you generate through the year.

4. Don’t Dump Your Junk

This goes under the same class as littering but on a larger class. Dumping junk, whether its old appliance or furniture, is a major problem in every city in the United States. Too often people say to themselves, “Eh, I’ll just take this T.V. to the curb. Somebody will want it.” More often than not that television languishes on the side of the curb until your city’s waste management department.

So instead of dumping your furniture or appliances call a hauling service like Green Clean Junk Removal Services to haul away bulky items that won’t you don’t want.

5. Dispose of Household Hazardous Materials Properly

Never throw household hazardous waste (like paints, cleaners, automotive fluids, etc) in the trash and never dump them in a sink. Take your household hazardous waste to a licensed drop off center or call a licensed hauling service to dispose of hazardous waste.

Most of these tips are things you probably already know but we hope you take them to heart. Everyone wants to live in a cleaner, greener community and these tips can help. 

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This is a question we ask people to ask themselves all the time. When Green Clean Junk Removal professionals are called in to help declutter a client’s home we also try to offer them organizing advice to help them stay organized. One of the things we tell our clients is when you buy something ask yourself, Do you really need this? The answer is probably no.

Need and want are funny things. Even in a modern world we actually need very little. If you think about it our needs today are pretty much the same as they were in paleolithic times. Food, shelter, clothing, and companionship.

But modern life oftentimes turns wants into needs.

We convince ourselves we need something.I need that leather jacket, and that set of handmade dishes with the artisan glass bubbles, and those $400 shoes, and that juicer I don’t use.  

No, you don’t.

Advertising convinces us that we need thing something. I need those shoes to be like Mike, I need that car to look cool, I need that table top grill to make my life better, and I need a robot vacuum cleaner to make my life easier

No, you don’t.

You really don’t need sixty percent of the things you think you need. You just want them. Then when you get them you discover you have no practical use for them. 

 Learn to want less, and live more. So when you are shopping ask yourself, Do I need this? Will I use this? What am I willing to throw away  to make space for this? If the answer is no, than don’t buy it.

If you need help decluttering call Green Clean Junk Removal Services today and talk to one of our friendly junk removal specialists for advice.

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When you are a junk removal company, like Green Clean Junk Removal Services, you are often, erm, blessed with a lot of unwanted but otherwise cool stuff. Wanna broken keyboard? We gotta broken keyboard. Need knee-board? We gotta knee board. We encounter all types of stuff and have hauled away all types of stuff. 

So how does Green Clean Junk Removal Services dispose of all those wonderfully random items? We try to dump as little as possible in the landfill so our staff has gotten creative about how we recycle. One way we recycle is to support local thrift shops.

When our junk removal professionals haul away useable items like appliances, or old furniture, or old clothes our next stop is the local thrift store. Green Clean Junk Removal Services supports a plethora of local thrift shops through donations. 

Green Clean Junk Removal Services can’t guarantee that we’ll make those Pro Wings cool, but we can guarantee that we’ll do our best to keep your junk and trash out of the landfill.

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Three months (or six months or even a year or more) of pre-production and production can leave any office space looking like a war zone. So who do you call when you need a production office cleaned up and broken down? 

Green Clean Junk Removal Services, of course. 

We’re centrally located in film production friendly cities like New York and Los Angeles. And we have years of experience providing junk removal and trash removal services to the film and television industry. Green Clean Junk Removal Service’s provides an office clean out service that can be customized to fit your budget.

So if you are a producer, unit production manager, or production coordinator and need help cleaning out a production office call Green Clean Junk Removal Services today. Call 888-347-2851 

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What is household hazardous waste? There are a lot of common items that are classed as HHW and should not be placed in the regular trash. Items like paint, paint thinners, wood finishes and varnishes, cleaners, automotive fluids (like oil or coolant), and pesticides. Also e-waste like computer monitors and televisions get lumped into the HHW category fairly often.

Most junk removal services and hauling services won’t haul away household hazardous waste. Green Clean Junk Removal Services will haul away and safely dispose of household hazardous waste. Whether you have a few paint cans or half a garage full of paint and automotive fluids Green Clean Junk Removal Services has your back.

Call 888-347-2851 to talk to one of our friendly junk removal experts who can assist you in arranging for your HHW disposal.

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That is what we call the Green Clean Junk Removal Advantage.

When you are shopping for a junk removal company go with the one that respects your time. Green Clean Junk Removal Services knows you are busy, this is why we provide free phone estimates and provide same day junk removal. We promise you’ll never have to wait for an in person estimate and you’ll never have to wait around for a junk removal crew. 

Green Clean Junk Removal Services’ junk hauling professionals care about you and share your clean up goals. They also share your concern for the environment. This is why we are committed to recycling as much as possible. Our current company wide goal is to recycle 50% of the items we collect from any junk removal or clean out job. 

We’re more than just a junk removal company, we’re your friends and neighbors, we’re your partners in a better world. 

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1. Hassle Free

Green Clean Junk Removal Services junk hauling services are completely hassle free. You don’t need to get a city issued permit. You don’t need to hire extra labor. You don’t need to hire extra labor. Our junk removal services are all inclusive. We handle everything for you so you don’t have to worry about it.

2. Labor is Included

Our labor is included in every junk removal job we do. You don’t have to worry about hiring extra help or pitching in to help clean up. Green Clean Junk Removal Services does it all for you so you don’t have to do anything but point to the junk and trash you want removed.

3. We Recycle

When you dump trash and junk into a dumpster its only going one place and one place only: the landfill. When you let Green Clean Junk Removal Services haul away your junk we recycle as much as we can. Our goal is to recycle 40 to 50% of the materials we recycle. Occasionally we recycle up to 90% of what we recover from a site.

Green Clean Junk Removal Services also offers award winning customer service and personalized service for every job. Green Clean Junk Removal Services can do everything you need and do it with a smile on our face.

Call Green Clean Junk Removal Services today for a free estimate. Call 888-347-2851

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