Everyone is always talking about stopping the insane influx of junk mail, but catalogs are a better place to start.
Why?
Catalogs aren’t simple junk mail – catalogs are HUGE mounds of paper that most of use don’t need or read.
One source notes that 17 billion catalogs were distributed in the United States in 1998 and that 3.35 million tons of paper were used for catalogs in 1999. Catalogs have become more and more prevalent in recent years – you do the math.
Often catalogs are made up of glossy paper that’s not recycled or as easily recyclable as plain old paper.
Nowadays you can find almost anything you might find in paper catalog online instead.
What to do:
- Head over to Catalog Choice.
- Catalog Choice is a free service that helps you to limit what ends up in your your mailbox.
- You sign up, choose which catalogs you’d like to stop and then the company contacts the catalog providers on your behalf, requesting that you don’t get anymore of their catalogs.
Catalog Choice is a sponsored project of the Ecology Center. It’s endorsed by the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Do you need the catalogs that come to your house? Why or why not?
Tags: Catalog Choice, junk mail, paper, paper use, recycled paper, resource waste, stop junk mail, wasted resources
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