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Cancel Your Random Catalogs

February 10, 2009 in Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle by Jennifer | 1 comment

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:

  1. Head over to Catalog Choice.
  2. Catalog Choice is a free service that helps you to limit what ends up in your your mailbox.
  3. 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?

Reduce the Junk Mail Coming to Your House

October 8, 2008 in Home Office, Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle by Jennifer | 1 comment

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.