On the Ground: Kept House's Landfill Diversion Tactics
In the debut segment of ‘On the Ground’, Kimberly talks with Greg Pipkins about how he and his wife, Jamie, put sustainability into practice when starting their estate sales company, Kept House.
9/19/2024
Since the inception of Sustainable Planet, Kimberly has wanted to include a segment about people pursuing sustainability in their daily lives, such as through the careers they choose. Kimberly’s first guest on ‘On the Ground’ is Greg Pipkins. He and his wife Jamie started Kept House, an estate sales company, after being their own first customers. Since their first sale in 2020, Kept House’s approach to liquidation has been driven by their passion to help people and keep as much out of landfills as possible when emptying a home.
Greg and Kimberly discuss:
That an estate sale is more than just a giant yard sale
What inspired Greg and Jamie to take an eco-friendly business approach
That hiring a dumpster is not the only option
The variety of strategies to ensure that everything that can be reused gets reused
The challenges of sustainably clearing out a house
For more about what happens on the other end, check out Kimberly’s next post about thrifting in her Sustainable Planet newsletter
Resources
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This wasn’t the article mentioned in the interview, but covers many of the same points
