What was your biggest stress during your last move? Were you able to find all the cardboard boxes that you needed in your neighbor's recycling bin? Or did you succumb to buying brand new moving boxes (made from virgin wood) at your local big box store?

Lose the eco-guilt...now you have another option! Welcome, FROGBOX, a company new to Seattle that aims to help locals move with the help of rent-able plastic boxes. See the press release below!

For Those Moving, Plastic is the New Cardboard

Seattle company FROGBOX is in the business of keeping cardboard boxes out of the moving process. The young service delivers plastic, ergonomic boxes to people's old houses and picks them up after at they've moved into their new place.  A one-week rental for a one bedroom condo is about $130 - a price that many busy professionals that don't have time to dumpster dive for used boxes or buy new ones consider a cost savings.  

FROGBOX has crunched the numbers on how many cardboard boxes Greater Seattleites use each month for moving, and the estimate is about 1 million.  Every month - just in Seattle!  The company is excited to see Seattleites start to abandon cardboard because it can only be used twice, while FROGBOXES can be reused about 400 times before they’re recycled.

“The amount of resources used by people using FROGBOXES for moving is drastically reduced, and after the 10th time, our boxes actually become a carbon offset,” says company Founder Doug Burgoyne. “Picture the acres of trees that one FROGBOX is saving.”

Along with bio-diesel trucks and a solar-powered website, FROGBOX gives 1% of their sales to frog habitat restoration.  They recently gave to a local initiative that helps preserve the highly threated Oregon spotted frog, of which only a few hundred still exist in the Northwest. FROGBOX also recently sponsored a talk by Dr. Kerry Kriger of SAVE THE FROGS!

Dr. Kriger has become internationally known as the spokesperson that is educating the masses on the fact that one third of the world’s frog species are on the verge of extinction.  Frogs play a huge role in the lives of human beings by feasting on hundreds of flies, mosquitoes and the dreaded 'no-see-ems' everyday.

FROGBOX will expand down the West Coast this year, helping to wean more Americans from their dependence on forest killing cardboard.

book online at frogbox.com