Portable storage containers, a review of the basics
Recycle others' packing materials if you can, and make heavy use of towels, clothes, and other soft, fluffy items you already have. When your soft furnishings run out, plastic grocery bags are excellent padding. (They're not green, but most people have drifts of them in their kitchen anyway. ) Newspapers are another superb green packing material. If you have no newspapers because you went green by switching to online delivery, shredded junk mail makes great "packing peanuts.