Until recently, we had little, to no experience with larger demolition projects. Last week the College Hunks tackled a 17-foot camper trailer that needed to be removed and recycled. This was no ordinary job and it has quite the back story. Sadly, the circumstances are most unfortunate. A homeless man who had been spending his evenings in the camper died and remained their unfound for weeks. Once the family who owned the camper found the dead homeless man, his body was removed and the trailer was cleaned by Crime Scene Cleaners. College Hunks Hauling Junk then got the call to remove the camper. It was quite the daunting task, but well within the capabilities of the multi-talented College Hunks. With Sawz-All in hand the Colleg Hunks cut the camper apart piece-by-piece and removed the entire camper in record time. Over 65% of the camper was recycled as well!

While this scenario is unlikely to happen, the College Hunks are always prepared to handle any demolition job sent their way. Next time you need something large demolished call the College Hunks and let them have at it.
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Looking to earn some extra cash during summer break, two college seniors put their heads together and came up with what would become a multimillion-dollar junk hauling company.

But they knew in order to succeed, they needed to stand out from the rest, so they came up with a catchy name and unique branding.

“We were just trying to come up with something catchy, and the name seemed to resonate with people and catch their attention as well as make them smile,” said Nick Friedman, co-founder and president of College Hunks Hauling Junk, who started the Tampa, Fla.-based company in June 2005 with longtime friend Omar Soliman. “Our clean-cut collegiate image, our progressive thinking in terms of recycling and community involvement, and our focus on providing our clients with a fun and memorable experience that is not typical of a trash hauling service.”

What started with one cargo van became a franchised business in 2007 and now has more than 40 trucks, 22 franchises and 26 locations across the country, making Soliman and Friedman the youngest franchisors in America.

To read the full article, check out Waste & Recycling News.

Hoarding can cause more problems than simply aesthetic ones. While clutter does cause an unsightly mess it can also be the cause for much more serious problems. Families are torn apart, homes are lost, and childhoods are ruined because of hoarding. In serious cases the problem gets so bad that homes are deemed unlivable by the city and families are forced out. Children in extreme cases have been taken away from their parents because the home is no longer livable. This is an issue that is much more serious than most think and needs to be fixed in the early stages before the problem progresses to the point where the earlier mentioned problems arise.

Those who need help with hoarding should begin by seeking help from a professional who deals with the mental/medical causes of hoarding. This is the best place to start when attempting to cope with the problems that hoarding can cause. The next step is to get organized and de-clutter. A professional organizer who specializes in dealing with hoarders would be a great person to contact in regards to this. The professional organizer will help you sort through the mess and separate what should be kept from the items that need to be discarded. The organizer will be a wonderful resource and can objectively look at the items without emotions coming into play. The organizer will help sort the items and help prepare for the next step which is removal of the excess items. This is where a junk removal company such as College Hunks Hauling Junk, would come into play. These professional junk haulers will come in and remove the excess items so that the home/space can be clutter free and livable.

According to the company’s website, the Envion Oil Generator is both efficient and environmentally sensitive, producing a net gain in energy recaptured, with vent gas generating electricity to drive the unit. The machine accepts most types of waste plastic, without the need for pre-sorting or cleaning, and is able to handle plastic currently sitting in landfill sites. Given that in the US only 4% of the 48 million tons of plastic waste produced every year gets recycled, there’s plenty of raw material for Envion to work with. The company claims that a single oil generator can convert 10,000 tons of plastic into more than 50,000 barrels of oil a year, at a cost of USD 17 per ton. Given the cost of the alternatives—landfill at USD 70–200 per ton, and recycling at USD 50–150 per ton—Envion looks set to clean up. Envion is also developing an application of the technology to convert car tires into oil.

Although some will challenge that more oil consumption is not what the planet needs, Envion has come up with a commercially attractive solution to the problem of plastic waste, which should appeal to local authorities for whom waste management is an increasing struggle.
- from Springwise

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Let’s break it down: Considering that storage units can range from $50 to $400 dollars per month depending on size and location the low end price for a year would be $600. A larger space on the high end would cost the individual $4800 to store items they don’t even use for a year.

This is a cost that most people do not need to incur because the items they are paying to store have no intended future use. Clearly there is a better way to handle excess items that is not as nearly as costly. The price for a junk removal company to remove a full truckload, which is typically the amount of items that fits in a large storage unit, is on average $550. This one time expense will save money on storage and the items will also be disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner.

Remember, if we have the tools for the job WE WILL GET THE JOB DONE!. We pride ourselves on being the only junk removal specialists that can haul away anything, from anywhere, at anytime. The Junk Hunks not only have the tools necessary for demolition work, but also the resources to dispose of these items in a environmentally friendly way. So the next time you think of College Hunks Hauling Junk, please think of us as more than simply your junk removal specialists!

A recent study conducted in Seattle showed that only 50 percent of what could be recycled is and that the national average is only 38 percent. The resources for recycling are in place, they are just not used enough. If everyone does their part we could easily see a 60 percent recycling rate nationwide. Most items can be broken down into the individual components and recycled. Old televisions are taken apart and the glass and lead are removed and reused. The glass is often times ground up back into sand and the lead is used to insulate hazardous waste containers.

Old furniture can also be recycled. The metal in furniture is generally melted down and reused and wood is ground up and used to make composite board which is used in new furniture and other wooden items. So much of what we dispose of is recyclable, but the problem is that the resources for recycling are not all easily accessible. This is where the College Hunks Hauling Junk can help. We are experts at recycling and will make sure any items we remove find the proper facility so as much as possible can be recycled.

COLLEGE HUNKS HAULING JUNK will remove your old TVs and computer montiors at NO ADDED COST!

Improper disposal of computer monitors and television creates a significant burden on landfills because toxic substances (such as lead) can leach into the soil and groundwater. For instance, cathode ray tube (CRT) television monitors contain, on average, four to eight pounds of lead, a highly toxic heavy metal.

Our very own Denver-based, Guaranteed Recycling Xperts offer some tips and answers to e-waste recycling questions.

It is now Spring Cleaning time and many people ask us to help them declutter their homes. If you have any areas that need to be cleaned out, remember that we do all of the labor – we actually pull the items out for you and only take what you don’t want and we recycle the rest!