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Green is a Great American Tradition and Junk Removal from Junk King Can Help!

Many of us might think that recycling has always been a “thing.” But the truth is, it hasn’t been a common practice until the Twentieth century.

In the 1920s, 70 percent of cities in the United States ran recycling programs – just good economic sense for households. And two decades later during World War II, industry recycled and reused about 25 percent of the waste stream, recycling everything from steel to nylon stockings.

As one article noted,

“During the war, nylon was needed to make parachutes, flak vests and other equipment and nylon stockings were in short supply. Some women painted their legs to look like nylons and used black eye-liner to draw a seam up the back.”

Recycling fell on hard times after the War, however, and by 1960 only 7 percent of households recycled. In fact, it wasn’t until 1981 that Woodbury, New Jersey became the first city in the U.S. to mandate recycling. By 1990, it’s reported that 17 percent of households recycled.

And today, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s data, the recycling rate has increased from less than 7 percent in 1960 to the current rate of 32 percent.

Junk King is doing its part to keep that tradition alive by consistently striving for a 60 percent junk recycling rate.

How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with Junk Recycling

Regardless of whether you’re a homeowner, tenant, or business owner or manager of a business, the need to remove junk is common.

Your junk removal needs can be in the form of everything from furniture removal to old electronics, or e-waste, to excess yard waste to construction waste. When it comes to taking care of junk removal and junk pick-up, your options include doing it all yourself – the DIY route – or having someone else do it for you.

With either option, however, one of your concerns should be – and most likely is – how to recycle as much of your junk as possible.

And when it comes to being environmentally friendly – when you want to “Go Green” with junk recycling – the process goes far beyond recycling cans, bottles, paper, and plastic. Junk recycling, whether it’s junk from your home or junk from your workplace, can involve a larger and wider variety of debris and waste materials.

For example, junk recycling can mean appliance recycling and recycling e-waste.

You mean you can recycle a clothes dryer?! Yes, you can since most household appliances are 80 to 90 percent steel and other metals. And metal can be recycled almost infinitely if recovered properly.

Then there’s the e-waste or electronic waste.

These materials are all the waste from consumer products and devices that contain electronics. All of our gadgets such as smartphones, tablets, e-readers, laptops, desktop computers, mobile phones, monitors, and so on – these are what constitute most of what we call e-waste.

And, as a nation, we’re not doing a really good job of recycling them. This is why you can help reduce your carbon footprint in a big way with e-waste and electronic junk recycling.

Junk Recycling and the Problem with E-Waste

How bad is it?

An article from Tech Times pointed out that, globally,

“According to ABC, despite the e-waste now containing anything coming from gold and silver even to valuable glass and other rare earth elements, it was noted that only about 17.4% will be effectively recycled. This is based on the 2019 figures.”

In the United States, the picture is not much brighter. According to the EPA, back in 2018, the rate of selected consumer electronics recycling, which includes “products such as TVs, VCRs, DVD players, video cameras, stereo systems, telephones and computer equipment,” was 38.5 percent. That sounds better, but it doesn’t account for all e-waste generated in the U.S.

One of the problems with e-waste is its potential for environmental harm. Most electronics contain some amount of metals and other elements that, if allowed to leach into groundwater or escape into the air, can become toxic waste.

Unfortunately, of the almost seven million tons of e-waste discarded by Americans currently, only 12.5 percent is recycled.

The good news is that with the help of a green junk removal service like Junk King Fairfax, you can arrange to haul junk away from your home or workplace, knowing that as much as 60 percent or more of it will be recycled.

Now THAT’S an easy way to reduce your carbon footprint!

Two Ways to Keep Up the Great American Tradition of Being Green with Junk Removal

Most of us in America, and that includes the greater Fairfax region, enjoy do-it-yourself or DIY projects.

Now, you may never have thought of junk removal as a project but more likely as a chore or even a dreaded burden of a task. And if you chose to do it yourself, that would be quite understandable. However, DIY junk removal doesn’t have to be a burden.

With Junk King Fairfax you can easily rent a dumpster that is specifically designed to be user-friendly, easy to access, and takes up little space on your driveway, parking lot, or curbside. A simple call to Junk King also means skipping the hassle of searching the Internet for “Dumpster rental near me” or some other online search terms.

If you want to load your junk items on your schedule and at your own pace, a Junk King rental MINI Dumpster is definitely the best DIY approach you can take.

The second way to be green with your junk removal is to have someone else do it all for you and who will ensure that as much as possible gets recycled.

That would be Junk King Fairfax!

Our professional and courteous junk haulers can show up in almost no time to pick up junk and haul it away for you. And we guarantee that we will sort it and recover as much that can be recycled as possible. Typically, that means as much as 60 percent or more.

Not only are we friendly and good at what we do, we offer the best pricing for junk hauling services in our area which includes great communities like Fairfax, Woodbridge, Sterling, Lorton, Clifton, or Dumfries.

Need Junk Removed in Fairfax County? Junk King Fairfax is Your Green Choice!

If you live in or near the greater Fairfax area, Junk King Fairfax is here to take care of all your junk removal needs.

Sometimes, your household or workplace junk can pile up and threaten to overwhelm you. It may be in your garage, your basement, or your storage shed out behind your loading dock. In fact, you may even be spending much needed cash on a self-storage unit for your junk!

No matter where it’s piling up, if you don’t want it or need it then it’s time to get rid of it!

The green team at Junk King Fairfax provides efficient, safe, and authentically eco-friendly junk and debris removal services. And you can know that we really are eco-friendly because we work hard to recycle or reuse as much of everything that we pick up each and every day.

And our experienced junk removal team will carefully remove and haul off any types of junk or other unwanted items you might have, and our junk removal teams are trained and equipped to handle all your large junk items like old appliances, as well.

Our professional and courteous junk removal team will show up at your home or office, and we’ll call 15 to 30 minutes before we arrive. Once we’re on-site, we give you a free estimate based on how much room your junk takes up in our truck.

Then you simply point, and we’ll load those old junk items into our junk removal trucks and haul them away to be recycled, if possible, and with no hidden fees.

So, are you ready to get rid of your junk and have it recycled? It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3.

Just make an appointment by booking online above, or by calling us at 1.888.888.JUNK (5865).

Junk King Fairfax Is Taking The Pain Out Of Office Furniture Removal

Office furniture is a mainstay of work environments everywhere.

Whether your workplace has only one real office surrounded by loading docks and warehouses or is nothing but a giant warren of offices and cubicles, every one of these workspaces will contain some office furniture. And what most office furniture has in common is that they are almost always made up of heavy items.

Of course, if all you do is sit at your desk and never have to relocate it or move it to a different office, that bulk is simply a good feature. It means your desk doesn’t slide around easily! And that credenza in the conference room not only looks nice and holds all the company’s ISO Standards binders, but it’s probably quite heavy and substantial, as well.

The problem is that when these things have to be moved and loaded either because they’re being taken to a new location or because they’re being replaced, the process can be difficult and real pain.

Sometimes literally.

This is why Junk King Fairfax specializes in office furniture removal.

Office Furniture and Disposal: Not a Job for the Faint of Heart

Businesses often relocate for several reasons. Sometimes it’s simply to take advantage of a better location or better lease arrangements. Other times it’s because of the need for larger facilities. And, unfortunately, there is also occasions when a company has to downsize.

All of these scenarios not only involve packing and moving equipment, inventory, tools, and other assets, but it almost always means moving office furniture, as well.

Sometimes the furniture is going to be gotten rid of because the company is upgrading and purchasing all new furnishings. Other times the firm is simply paring down the quantity of furniture items they need and disposing of the excess pieces. Either way, when furniture removal is required, it means hard labor, especially if you or your company decides to tackle it themselves.

Unfortunately, office Furniture removal and disposal are not only demanding work, but if the old pieces are going to be disposed of, you need to know how to dispose of large furniture.

Of course, you may think you know how to dispose of furniture – you just haul it off to the dump, right?

Not exactly. First of all, it’s quite possible the local landfills may not accept your large furniture items. And, in addition to that, most large office furniture is constructed of solid wood or steel and other metals. This means that they are quite likely to be recyclable. In fact, this is a frequent practice – but not frequent enough.

Here’s how it works according to The Balance,

“If the furniture is not suitable for reuse at all (perhaps it’s damaged beyond repair) it will be disassembled, separated into various materials (such as metals, plastics, and fabrics), and sent to the appropriate recycling center. Stuffed furniture may be accepted at your local mattress recycler.”

So, if you’re now thinking, “Well, where can I dispose of furniture properly?” then Junk King Fairfax can help.

When You Need Office Furniture Removal Services in the Fairfax Area

You’ve decided to buy some new office furniture and your old pieces are not even worth donating let alone selling. Or you have to reduce your office and workspace because half your staff is now WFH – working from home – and you no longer need the old furniture items.

The problem is that even if you want to see these pieces properly disposed of – as in ‘recycled’ – you still probably don’t want to take care of it all yourself. So, what do you do?

When you need old furniture removal, especially if it’s old office furniture, you need some reliable and affordable furniture removal services. Of course, you could go to your phone and type in or say, “junk removal near me” or, because you’re in the Fairfax area, something like “junk removal Fairfax VA” or even just “junk removal in Fairfax.”

The only problem with that approach is that you still have to make a decision among the dozens of results that are probably going to come up. And how do you know which service is going to be the best one?

If you’re like most business owners or managers, you know you want to save money but you also want to get the most value out of the money you do spend. And, when it comes to office furniture removal and other junk removal services, quality means professionalism, reliability, and speed.

Not to mention you want to hire a firm that you know for certain is going to see to it that your old furniture items are recycled and not simply dumped somewhere.

The good news is that, at Junk King Fairfax, we can save you a great deal of time and research.

Why You Need to Call Junk King for Your Office Removal Needs

We understand that anyone can say that they’re the best at whatever product or service they provide. But at Junk King Fairfax we can let our customers say it for us.

Not only is Junk King the number one rated junk removal firm in North America, but we are also the greenest and we pioneered eco-friendly junk removal when our company was founded back in 2005. And in the almost two decades since, we have earned a reputation for great service, great prices, and green practices.

As our customers say,

“The service technicians were timely, polite, professional, and fast. I showed them what had to go, and they loaded it up in 20 minutes… #Awesome!” – E. Lee, Lorton, Virginia

“A wonderful company. Very responsive and timely. The men were professional and caring. I have recommended this company to a neighbor! Thank you.” – P. Hickerson, Falls Church, Virginia

“They came out fastest of everyone I called, showed up in the time window they promised, were very professional start to finish, and were less expensive than the others I called. I will definitely use them again in the future.” – D. Bogdanovic, Reston, Virginia

Fast, reliable, affordable, and green – what more can we say?

When you need old office furniture removal for any reason and for any quantities, you will never go wrong by calling on Junk King Fairfax for your office furniture and junk removal needs. So, give us a call today and let us help you take the pain out of office furniture removal.

Junk King Fairfax: Your Office Furniture Removal Team of Choice in the Greater Fairfax Area

If you live in Manassas, Woodbridge, Alexandria, Reston, or even Chantilly, Junk King Fairfax needs to be your number one choice for office furniture removal. No matter whether you’re replacing old furniture or relocating and getting rid of the old stuff, whatever the reason if you’ve got office furniture and other junk that needs to go, your first call should be to Junk King Fairfax.

That’s because we provide efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly junk and furniture removal services.

They take the pain out of disposing of your office (and household!) junk. Our experienced junk removal team will carefully remove and haul off any types of junk you have. The Junk King big, red trucks are designed to handle all your large office junk items.

When you make an appointment with Junk King Fairfax, our professional and insured junk removal team will show up at your office on time, as promised. In addition, we’ll always call 15 to 30 minutes before we arrive. And, once we’re on-site, we’ll give you a free estimate.

Your free, no-obligation estimate will be based on how much room your junk and furniture takes up in our truck.

If you like our estimate, you simply point, and we’ll load those office junk items into our junk removal trucks. Then we will haul them away – and all without any hidden fees!

So, ready to get rid of your old junk? It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3.

Just make an appointment by booking online above, or by calling us at 1.888.888.JUNK (5865).

8 Ways to Get Rid of the Junk At Your Office

Do you want to get rid of the junk at your office? Then Junk King Fairfax is here to help! You can call us today, set up a time that works for you, and have that extra office junk gone in no time! Don’t make your employees sit in a crowded, disorganized office any longer than necessary. Click below and you can even save up to $20! To find out more steps to get your office clean, and keep it that way, continue reading the full blog!

Did you know that 51 percent of the average employee’s day is spent doing something that they don’t like doing? If you’re not taking note of this little-known fact, your employees may not be as happy with your company as you think they are. If they are spending so much of their days doing pointless things, trying to maneuver around junk, or trying to organize the mess around the office, it’s only a matter of time before they start looking for another job. Of course, they don’t want to go through that hassle. Chances are, they really like working for your company when they are not doing those specific tasks. You need to address the issues causing their unhappiness in a timely manner. If your business is cluttered with items that could go, then you need to start there. The space it creates can be a good place to start enhancing the breathing room of your employees. Take note of these eight key steps to get rid of the junk at your office to help your employees become happy again.

Step 1: Set Clear Organizational Goals

Set clear organizational goals before you begin cleaning up the office. You should understand why it’s necessary and what you hope to achieve by doing so. Go through each room and decide what is essential to keep out, what can be put away to make more room, and what junk can go. Whether your goal is to organize or downsize the items you no longer need, this can accomplish both goals.

You want to create a list of what items are needed daily, what are only needed on occasion, and what you simply do not need anymore. The items you do not need anymore are what you should be getting rid of, while the items that you only need on occasion should be put in storage until you need them. By putting those items away, you have more space to move around, plus fewer business distractions.

Step 2: Decide What Stays and What Can Go

When looking at the items you only use on occasion, you need to decide if you want to keep what you have and store it, or if you will just buy it again when you need it. For some businesses, storage space is at a premium. If that is the case for you, then you need to do an inventory of your space and figure out what should stay, and what you need to get rid of. Make a list of all the items that are currently taking up space on your desk or in different places around the office. From there, you should decide which ones you are going to keep and which ones you are going to get rid of. You should also make a list of all the items that aren’t related to work, such as old receipts and unused gift cards. After you have created this list, you can begin to prioritize which ones should stay and which ones should go.

Step 3: Define Who Is In Charge

The next step is to decide who is in charge of the organizational process. This should be a person who is responsible for organizing the office and making sure that everything is being kept clean and in its place. That person may very well be you. However, if it is someone else, you should get them involved in the decision-making process. You should also make it clear who is responsible for keeping the office looking neat and organized when the junk removal process is complete. This person should be responsible for making sure that all the items on the “stay or go” list are kept in their appropriate places, and how often this task should be performed.

Step 4: Establish a Timetable

If you want to make sure that you are able to achieve all of the organizational goals that you have set for your company, you need to set a timetable. You can’t just promise to start cleaning up the office, make some progress, and then let it slip. The process needs consistency to be effective, and you need to make sure that your employees are aware of what is to come. You can do this by making it clear when the cleaning will take place and when it will be finished. It doesn’t matter if you only do this once a week—the important thing is for you to be consistent.

Step 5: Set Clear Expectations

If you want to be successful at getting rid of all the junk in your office, you need to make sure that your employees are clear on what should be in their workspace and what should be out of it. This means making sure that they have access to the “stay or go” list. Plus, it also means making sure that they know where to put any items that fall into the go category of your list.

Step 6: Train Your Employees to Know Where to Put Your Company’s Junk

If you want your employees to clean up the junk, you’re going to have to train them to know where to put it. Set aside an area that will hold the junk until you have it removed. Some companies only need to go through and remove junk once every few years because they do not create much extra junk. Their items are always used regularly, or they simply do not use many items outside of a computer or specific set of machines. However, there are also companies that create regular junk that needs to be disposed of.

Depending on which category you fall into, you may need to set up different areas for junk. If you will have a company come in and remove junk from your Fairfax business regularly, then an easy to access spot is essential. If you will only have junk removed every year or two, the area should be a little less obvious and not anywhere customers or clients would see it.

Step 7: Hire a Fairfax Commercial Junk Removal Company

If you want to make your office a better place to work, you’re going to have to make a few more changes. And one of them is to make sure that your company’s junk is removed. Calling Junk King Fairfax allows you to have someone come in, pick up the junk from your office, and haul it away. You do not need to waste time or money having your employees do it. Plus, you do not have to risk anyone getting hurt trying to lift up heavy objects. Instead, you can go through, point to the junk you want removed, and be happy knowing it will be taken care of for you.

On top of having a reliable company that can come pick up the junk from your business, you also get the benefit of having a quote before you begin the process. Whenever you contact Junk King Fairfax, you will get a quote for the cost to come out, pick up the items you want disposed of, and to haul it all away. You do not have to lift anything from the spot you designate for pickup. You simply get to point and watch!

Step 8: Start Making Your Office a Better Place to Work

The last important thing that you need to do is to work towards making your office a better place to work. This means making sure that your employees have the tools that they need to be successful in their new clean, organized office space. This might also mean providing your employees with the right technology and tools, as well as making sure that your company sticks to the set of organizational goals you created in the beginning of this process. By keeping up with these tasks, you begin making your office a cleaner, better, and more organized place to be.

The key here is to be thorough, and don’t skip any details. Ask yourself these questions to get started:

What is the purpose of my office junk?
Who is responsible for getting it out of the way?
What happens if it gets left behind?
What happens if it takes longer than two hours to get it out of the way?
What happens if it doesn’t get done?
What happens if it is not removed/ disposed of?

Keep that “stay or go” list updated, and make sure whoever you put in charge will check it regularly. Then, make sure they are going through and adhering to the timetable you set up. Once the junk is out of the way, making sure your employees feel as though they can discuss any issues also helps.

Turn to Junk King Fairfax to Help Clean the Extra Junk Out of Your Office

Look around your office. If you see clutter, mess, and items you simply do not need to have around all the time, you may need a full office clean out. A professional from Junk King Fairfax can walk you through the process and help you make sure that it happens as efficiently as possible.

You have the option of a one-time pickup, or you can schedule pickups at regular intervals. Should you find yourself in need of commercial junk removal between your normal pickup times, you can always call for an extra pickup. It makes life easier, plus it gives you the peace of mind knowing that your employees do not need to sit, surrounded by junk, any longer than necessary.

To find out more contact Junk King Today!

More than you need to know about the word Junk

Junk has come to mean worthless stuff such as discarded or useless items of little or no value. People talk trash or junk. A financial instrument of little value is a junk bond. People also refer to their disorganized stuff as junk, as in I need to get my junk together. (Recently, people have referred to parts of their anatomy as junk, which used to be called family jewels or schmuck, which is German for jewelry—the opposite of junk.)

Where did the word junk come from? The word has a nautical heritage but not the Chinese Junk – that’s a different etymological path from the Chinese word pronounced Chun and came to use through the Portuguese word junco.

Our word junk comes from a 14th century word for an old cable or rope no longer usable. Sailors used the junk rope to plug leaks, or they tossed it overboard. Sailors expanded the word junk to mean any trash from ships, which expanded to become any discarded item.

Some word wonks say that the word junk derived from the Old French junc (from the Latin iuncus, meaning rush or reed)—a term once used to mean something of little value.

So where does this leave Junk King? If we stick to the French etymology, we would be Roi des Ordures. Or Latin, Rex Purgamentum. I think we’ll just keep the good ol’ Junk King, and we are not talking about the family jewel variety. Does this blog make me a word junkie?

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Holiday Clutter

Don’t let the holidays stress you out!

We all love the holiday season. Family we haven’t seen in a while, the decorations we put up with care, the delicious foods, it’s both joyful and triumphant. We cook and bake ourselves into a wonderful holiday frenzy. Days are spent shopping and thinking of our loved ones. Evenings are spent watching our favorite movies, attending parties and sipping eggnog and champagne. It’s fun but exhausting and stressful.

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When the dust settles and the seemingly endless parade of holiday visitors leave, we find ourselves in a post apocalyptic size mess. Empty bank accounts, refrigerators, and pantries now replaced with, full credit card statements, mounds of trash.

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Well, not this year. Here are some great tips to keep you sane:

1. Stick to a Budget – It’s really not the amount you spend on someone, it’s the thought. Don’t overextend yourself and regret it later.

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2. Toss the Junk: Holiday decorating often involves rearranging the house. Make sure you organize and store items properly or you will get claustrophobic. Clean every day. A little tedious but with busy schedules it’s so much easier to pick up every morning before you leave for work, rather than waiting until the house is a chaotic mess. Get rid of the junk! Nothing will make you grumpier than going into every room of the house and seeing clutter. If you don’t need it, toss it.

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3. Organize the Kitchen: Cleaning your fridge and pantry before the Holidays will help you stock up on real food, not just snacks and processed foods.

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4. Get Some Sun: Some people suffer from depression due to a lack of sunlight. It may be cold outside but on sunny days go for a walk, or do an outside activity. It will help take a minute to breathe and de-stress, while getting some much needed Vitamin D.

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5. Post holiday-pocalypse clean up: If you are just too tired to deal with it let Junk King help get the bulk of it out of the way by removing your christmas tree, and clutter.

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Have a safe and Happy Holidays. Remember if you drink, don’t drive.

From your friends at Junk King in Fairfax

Junk Removal — Arlington County Residents and Junk King

Here is some information to help you decide whether to use the Arlington County Service or call Junk King when you need to dispose unwanted items or debris. In general, for small pick-ups, Arlington provides good service at a modest additional cost to residents. If you think you have a big load or you need some labor to clear your clutter, then Junk King is likely your best option.

For Arlington Service, you request a pick-up, Monday — Friday, 8 a.m. — 5 p.m. You need to get your items to the curb and Arlington has some rules you must follow. “Pile items separately, curbside or in the street (not in the yard). There must be an overhead clearance of approximately 25 feet. Do not pile under low hanging power lines or tree limbs. Do not place next to parked cars; the truck needs at least a 10-foot clearance from cars to avoid possible damage.”

Arlington charges $20 for televisions and $15 for computer monitors, added to your quarterly utility bill. Arlington charges $10 for metal items (air conditioners, cabinets, exercise equipment) collected curbside for recycling. They have a weight limit of 50 lbs. maximum for each item. These charagable items include:
• Air conditioner
• Awnings (window, porch)
• Boat
• Camper shell (truck)
• Car doors, bumpers
• Cast iron/wrought iron fixtures (bath tub, sink) and furniture
• Chain link fence
• Dehumidifier, humidifier
• Desk/office
• Drill press
• Engine block
• Exercise equipment
• File cabinet (3 drawer+)
• Fireplace, insert
• Floor buffer
• Furnace
• Garage doors
• Gas grill
• Grate/iron (sewer, tree)
• Heat pumps
• Heating oil fuel tank
• Home appliances (dishwasher, freezer, refrigerator, stove, washer/dryer)
• House radiator (cast iron)
• Hydraulic floor jack on wheels
• Lathe/metal
• Lawn equipment, motorized (leaf shredder, mower, rotor tiller)
• Motor/outboard
• Pool
• Recreational vehicles (go cart, moped, motorcycles/motorbikes)
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• Shower stall
• Snow blower
• Metal stairs
• Stationary air compressor
• Table saw
• Tool chest
• Truck wheel/rim
• Wardrobe/closet
• Water cooler, heater
• Wood stove

The Arlington County Website has a list of items they take curbside or that you can drop off at their disposal facility. Click here.

Junk King takes everything. We provide all the labor, even some demolition for items such as sheds and hot tubs. We charge by volume. You can call Junk King 24 hours per day for same-day service in a convenient two-hour window. We can guide you through the disposal of paint and other items that Arlington will not take. Roughly speaking, if you have enough junk to fill a standard pick-up truck or more, you are probably better off using our labor to remove the unwanted items.

Again, Arlington has a good service for small, easy-to-manage disposal problems. Certainly, if you can get your items to the curb, Arlington’s $20 charge for TV or $10 for a gas grill makes more sense than calling a junk hauler. For larger cleanouts, you can save your time and your back by calling Junk King.

At Junk King, we give free estimates, and we’ll be straight forward and tell you if we think you are better off with the Arlington County service. Call me any time: Alex Powers, Owner and General Manager, (703) 819-5667

One last note: Arlington has an awesome system for leaf collection. Here’s the schedule: Click here.

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Keeping E-waste out of landfills

Junk King Fairfax is 100% landfill free, which means we recycle 100% of the e-waste we haul.

According to DoSomething.org, an incredible 80 to 85 percent of tech junk, or e-waste, ends up in landfills or incinerators, and can release toxic gases into the air. Again, Junk King keeps 100% of the e-waste we collect out of the landfills.

1. 80 to 85 percent of electronic products were discarded in landfills or incinerators, which can release certain toxics into the air.
2. E-waste represents 2 percent of America’s trash in landfills, but it equals 70 percent of overall toxic waste. The extreme amount of lead in electronics alone causes damage in the central and peripheral nervous systems, the blood and the kidneys.
3. 20 to 50 million metric tons of e-waste are disposed worldwide every year.
4. Cell phones and other electronic items contain high amounts of precious metals like gold or silver. Americans dump phones containing over $60 million in gold/silver every year.
5. Only 12.5 percent of e-waste is currently recycled.
6. For every 1 million cell phones that are recycled, 35,274 pounds of copper, 772 pounds of silver, 75 pounds of gold, and 33 pounds of palladium can be recovered.
7. Recycling 1 million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.
8. E-waste is still the fastest growing municipal waste stream in America, according to the EPA.
9. A large number of what is labeled as “e-waste” is actually not waste at all, but rather whole electronic equipment or parts that are readily marketable for reuse or can be recycled for materials recovery.
10. It takes 539 pounds of fossil fuel, 48 pounds of chemicals, and 1.5 tons of water to manufacture one computer and monitor
11. Electronic items that are considered to be hazardous include, but are not limited to:
• Televisions and computer monitors that contain cathode ray tubes
• LCD desktop monitors
• Laptop computers with LCD displays
• LCD televisions
• Plasma televisions
• Portable DVD players with LCD screens.

Imagine how much better we’d all be if all haulers met Junk King’s standard of 100% landfree.

Thanks to Terry Whearley, CMIT Solutions of Fairfax; www.cmitsolutions.com
for sending us this link to DoSomrthing.org

Bank of America shares how clearing clutter can help your finances

A Bank of America article offers practical tips how de-cluttering your home can make it more inviting, reduce your stress and help you avoid health problems aggravated by mold or dirt. Also, de-cluttering your home can save you money!
1. Catch problems early. Do you remember the last time you saw the back of your closet? If not, your stuff may be blocking you from signs of damage. You may avoid major repair or extermination bills down the road.
2. Make better use of freed-up space. Do you have a spare room or basement that’s full of junk? If you clear it out, you’ll have more space for your family, and possibly avoid renting a storage locker. You may even be able to turn that extra space into income by taking on a tenant.
3. Entertain at home. Do you ever go out for dinner or coffee with friends to avoid inviting them into your untidy home? If so, your clutter is ramping up your entertainment expenses. By making your home more guest-friendly, you’ll be a more comfortable host while saving money on restaurant bills.
4. Identify your big clutter problems. You may notice that just one or two types of items cause much of your clutter. Is it books and magazines? Clothes? Gadgets? Once you’ve fingered your clutter culprit, put it on a “do not buy” list. This way you’ll avoid cluttering your home again, and save money on future purchases.
Junk King can help you take advantage of this excellent advice from Bank of America. We can help yo clear the clutter. Then you can enjoy your clean home and improved finances.

Those old refrigerators are expensive!

That old refrigerator in the basement isn’t free. These old machines were built to last, but they also use used a lot more energy–5 times more than today’s equivalent refrigerators! For example, an old 19.0 cubic feet (average size), side-by-side refrigerator uses $243.20 of energy each year. (The equivalent new Energy Star machines use only $58 per year to run.)

Run your own calculation to see how much you can save.
https://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=refrig.calculator

Then call Junk King today to get rid of your old energy hog and start saving.

Customer Service is Key

Only 5% of Angie's List vendors earn the Super Service Award

Junk King earned Angie’s List Super Service Star for 2011, with 50+ reviews with an A average.

The junk and debris removal business is all about service: making the customer’s life easier and better. We help people reclaim their valuable space by removing all kinds of unwanted items: old furniture, appliances, mattresses, trash, yard debris, construction debris, tires, and such. We provide all the labor to remove those unwanted items so the customer can save his or her back. For example, we demo sheds and hot tubs—all those jobs that the County garbage service won’t do.
We know all the proper ways to dispose of the unwanted items. We sort the items at our warehouse. Then, we recycle, repurpose, and donate 100% of everything we haul. That’s right—100%! Nothing goes into a landfill. We are the greenest full-service junk removal service in the Washington DC Area.
We protect our clients. All our employees are carefully vetted and trained. We do not use casual or day labor. We are insured and bonded, too. Many other junk haulers cut corners in these important areas.
In addition, we provide the lowest price of any full-service junk removal service. Our trucks are bigger. Our crews are more efficient. Our recycling cuts down on dumping fees. We pass all these savings to our clients.
We are determined to keep our A Average with Angie’s List and earn their Super Service Star for 2012.

Junk King Fairfax

(703) 348-8214

7361 Lockport Place Suite M
Lorton, VA 22079

Hours: M-F: 8A-6P, Sa: 8A-4P

Providing junk removal services to the Fairfax area, including:

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Why You Need to Call Junk King for Your Office Removal Needs

Junk King Fairfax: Your Office Furniture Removal Team of Choice in the Greater Fairfax Area

Step 1: Set Clear Organizational Goals

Step 2: Decide What Stays and What Can Go

Step 3: Define Who Is In Charge

Step 4: Establish a Timetable

Step 5: Set Clear Expectations

Step 6: Train Your Employees to Know Where to Put Your Company’s Junk

Step 7: Hire a Fairfax Commercial Junk Removal Company

Step 8: Start Making Your Office a Better Place to Work

Turn to Junk King Fairfax to Help Clean the Extra Junk Out of Your Office

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