Yostivanich

This became really obvi­ous to me today mov­ing my girl­friend to her new place. Just the sheer amount of junk thrown out is crazy. And it wasn’t just her, it was every­body, from elec­tron­ics and posters to even vac­uum clean­ers and plas­tic bins and all kinds of food. Mov­ing just from the basis of the amount of stuff thrown out is envi­ron­men­tally unfriendly it seems to me.

Now granted that if peo­ple bought items that they both actu­ally needed and would last longer than a stay at an apart­ment would cer­tainly help this prob­lem. But it makes me won­der if any­one has done a study on the effects of mov­ing and what are the envi­ron­men­tal reper­cus­sions of a across city move vs. an across state/country move.