Explored: America's Locker Problem

Every year, tons of storage lockers are left behind. These are full of belongings that people either forgot about or just couldn’t afford to keep renting the locker. Most of these abandoned lockers are auctioned off or gone to waste. This, paired with the increase in the manufacturing of many goods, leads to a worldwide pollution and landfill disaster. But what if we look at this whole situation differently? What if the forgotten items that the majority finds old or useless a

In today’s world, trends are everything. A new fad comes up and suddenly everyone is rushing to the stores trying to get their hands on it which creates more demand for the item, increasing product production before quickly declining in popularity. However, this habit of overconsumption is a serious problem for our fragile ecosystem. The Impact of Fast Fashion: People are surprised to find out that the fashion industry is a major contributor to climate change and other enviro

Storage Angels is the solution for the unsold storage locker problem, estimated at up to a million cubic square feet of unwanted storage contents (up to half of all unsold stuff annually), costing self-storage companies millions of dollars in dump fees annually. Storage Angels is a non for profit start up with a mission to distribute useable household goods from ~4 thousand US storage lockers slated for the dump every year to worthy organizations, charities, the poor, and t

Does all of the 50 million cubic feet of American stuff annually find a buyer? Absolutely not. Storage auction buying is a business, and a side hustle for most buyers. Most are not looking to buy items for their personal use, but are looking to turn a profit by reselling them, and occasionally even finding a real treasure that could make headlines! It is business like any other. A storage auction buyer has to incur expenses to move merchandise, such as transportation (truck

The virtues of capitalism are many, and one of them, is abundance. Unfortunately, abundance sometimes leads to excess of material goods. In the United States, this excess overflow, oftentimes ends up in self-storage. America is unique among other developed countries in terms of the number of self-storage facilities around the country. There are more than 55,000 of them, one facility per 6,300 residents, or about 6.1 sq ft. of rentable storage space per person (adults and chi