Your choices are important. In fact, even something that seems small, like your pre-owned furniture choices, affect the earth. If you’re like most people, you kind of want the earth to keep existing—after all, it holds all the people and animals, and most of us hope it will be standing strong for our children and grandchildren. So how can you take steps to protect this limited resource? One way is by choosing pre-owned office furniture. Keep reading to see how used saves the world!
Reduce Landfill Waste
One of the biggest impact that used furniture has on the earth is reducing landfill waste. Landfills are already full of tables, chairs, desks, and shelves, why add more to them? Our culture’s obsession with disposable goods is finally catching up to us as we have fewer and fewer places to dispose of these items. Keep the world cleaner and keep used furniture out of landfills!
Keep Trees in the Forest
In addition to filling landfills, constant supplies of brand-new furniture rob our forests of trees. It seems silly that there are so many pieces of used furniture in NJ tossed into the landfill, only for new trees to be cut to make more new furniture. Break the cycle and buy pre-owned and let another tree live for another day!
Drive Less
Did you know that most used and pre-owned furniture stores in NJ source and sell locally? This may not seem like a big deal until you realize that a lot of furniture uses more resources to ship across the world than it does to actually make the furniture! When you buy pre-owned, you are usually buying furniture that has “lived” locally for many years, reducing the carbon footprint of moving more furniture around the globe.
Ready to make an impact on climate change today? You don’t have to make a huge change, just consider buying pre-owned furniture next time you’re shopping for commercial furniture in NJ!