Scary Junk: Five Ways Old Junk Harms You and the Planet

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Is your unwanted bulk junk scaring you to pieces? If it’s not, maybe it should be. Unwanted junk piling up creates problems in multiple areas, not just in your own life but in the lives of your loved ones, your neighbors, and the broader community. 

Here are five scary facts about the bulk junk taking up space in your household or business.

1. Junk Increases Your Stress Levels

It’s not your imagination, that clutter really is stressing you out. A study found that women who perceived their homes as more cluttered had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol. While cortisol isn’t all bad and it fluctuates throughout your day, chronic high cortisol levels can have some pretty terrifying side effects.

Chronic high cortisol is linked to:

• Weight Gain: Increased cortisol levels over time can cause excessive fat accumulation, especially around the midsection and the face.

• Fatigue: Feeling tired even though you got plenty of sleep? You might be stressed out by all the unwanted clutter in your household or business.

• High Blood Pressure: This easily measurable health indicator can herald the risk of even more serious health conditions like heart attacks, strokes, and kidney disease. 

You can take one manageable step to helping improve your chronic high cortisol levels and declutter your home or place of business. 

2. Unsustainable Junk Disposal Harms Public Health

Thinking about taking that clutter out to the curb to get collected with the city’s bulk trash pickup? That might get the unwanted junk out of your home or place of business, but is it the most sustainable course of action?

Burning waste releases harmful toxins into the environment like particulate matter and heavy metals. Burying waste in a landfill contributes to ground water pollution and harmful gas emissions. 

Per Environment America, the United States disposes of roughly 300 million tons of municipal solid waste every year, and about 19% of that waste qualifies as durable goods, which are furniture items, appliances, and other bulk goods that can be repaired, repurposed, or recycled. 

Sustainable methods of junk disposal like donation of usable goods and recycling salvageable materials like scrap metal, textiles, plastics, and glass can help protect public health. If you’re concerned about what happens to the junk, then choose Junk.com to take out the garbage the responsible way.

3. Junk Decreases Your Ability to Focus 

A little extra clutter in the workplace might not seem like a big deal, but is that junk keeping you and your employees from getting their work done?

Not only does a cluttered workspace leave a bad impression on clients and partners, it could be making you and all your fellow workers split their attention away from the tasks they need to complete. 

Neuroscience researchers have found that getting rid of the junk and clutter lying around results in improved focus and productivity.

Ditching the clutter in your home office or place of business could result in soaring sales figures, successful projects completed in record time, and more resources to allot toward the things that really matter to you.

4. Junk Accumulation is Linked to Procrastination

Putting off getting rid of that extra furniture? You might be in a vicious procrastination cycle.

One study found that people with more clutter in their homes can tend to put things off. This can result in piles of dirty laundry, stacks of unsorted papers, and undone important work like getting bills paid or making an appointment. The same study found that older adults with clutter problems also tended to report less overall satisfaction with life. 

If you’ve been putting off getting rid of things, you can check it off your list as soon as today if you choose same-day junk removal. Make the call, wave goodbye to the junk, and breathe easier knowing you accomplish something big.

5. Hordes of Junk Turn into Serious Hazards

Maybe your junk issue goes beyond a few unwanted couches, appliances, or bulky outdated electronics. Junk removal can help in hoarding situations by providing an empathetic and discrete cleanout. If you or a loved one struggles with hoarding behavior, you might have seen the serious warning signs and wondered if all that junk could cause a real problem. The answer is yes.

The excessive accumulation of items can pose a risk for hazards like:

• Fire: Enough flammable junk in one place or near an electrical outlet could spell disaster. Throw in a hot arid summer and your risk of fire multiplies.

• Fall: Whether you or a loved one is likely to trip over hoarded clutter or a mountain of clutter is ready for collapse, risk of serious injury is real.

• Pests: Some hoarded clutter may attract pests like silverfish, cockroaches, spiders, and termites. Pests in your home could lead to unsanitary conditions.

While hoarding is a complex mental health condition that will likely take the help of a mental health professional to fully resolve, one step you can take to protecting you or your loved one’s safety is calling for help from the experts performing hoarding cleanups. 

Don’t Be Afraid of Junk, Call Junk.com

Junk.com isn’t afraid of unwanted clutter and junk. We dispose of everything from old furniture to broken appliances. Get rid of one bulky trash item or call for a full property cleanout, and Junk.com can come help reclaim your space as soon as today.

Call (844) 771-6830 or use the online booking tool to get a team out to appraise your junk disposal job.