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The Storefront

November 12, 2009

Northwest business pushes 'Frogboxes'

Posted at 3:21 pm by Amy Rolph

Local Frogbox entrepreneur Jeff Hill. (Courtesy photo)

I promised myself I wasn't going to make any puns about "thinking outside the box" in this post. We'll see how far I make it. (After all, I love a good box-related pun.)

Here goes nothing:

Meet Jeff Hill. He's your local Frogbox entrepreneur.

The Snohomish resident works in the moving industry, distributing earth-friendly, reusable plastic bins. He also owns a local 1-800-GOT-JUNK franchise.

This is usually the place I'd insert a pun about thinking outside the box. Suffice it to say, the concept for Frogbox is one that appeals to earth-conscious consumers -- and it can make for an easier move, said Frogbox founder Doug Burgoyne.

The official description from Burgoyne: "Frogbox rents reusable plastic boxes to people and businesses that are moving, so they don't have to use cardboard. We deliver our boxes to people's homes and then pick them up in our biodiesel trucks once they've moved into their new place."

The company is headquartered in Vancouver B.C.

There's a reason for the name; the company gives 1 percent of its revenue to frog habitat restoration projects in the Northwest.

Burgoyne said the company's Web site is powered with solar power -- you can visit it here.