Junk mail is a big bad; not eco-friendly at all. About 4 million tons of junk mail arrives at U.S. homes each year. Some of us recycle, but not all of us. Also, not all areas even have proper paper recycling. What to do?
Stop junk mail: This is obviously your number one option. Unless you find junk mail an exciting read (I sure hope not) then why not cancel it?Over 100 million trees are used up to create junk mail, and you really don’t want to be a part of that.
How to stop junk mail:
Contact companies personally who send you junk mail, and tell them to take you off their list. If they don’t listen, I’d start sending it back.
Join Green Dimes. Not only will they stop junk mail cold, but they’ll plant 5 trees in your name when you sign on as a premium member.
Register at Mail Preference Service.
Try the Stop the Junk Mail Kit.
If you’d like to put the junk mail you already have to work, save it up for holiday wrap.
Junk mail is annoying and an eco-baddie, but that doesn’t mean you have to take it.
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October 9, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Will
Don’t forget to go to donotmail.org and sign the petition for a national Do Not Mail Registry.
Americans need a national Do Not Mail Registry, like the Do Not Call Registry, which will give them the choice to stop receiving wasteful junk mail that they don’t want and never asked for in the first place.
The total emissions of junk mail’s logging, production, printing, distribution, and disposal equal the CO2 emissions of more than 9 million cars. This is a 20th century practice that won’t help us meet the challenges of the 21st.
Sign the petition at donotmail.org
Will Craven
donotmail.org