Green Tips: What to do with Junk Mail
The majority of household waste consists of unsolicited mail, especially this time of year.
The majority of household waste consists of unsolicited mail – catalogs, direct mail marketing and flyers. The average household gets six pieces of junk mail each day (and even more at this time of year) and only 1.5 personal letters each week. That's more than 100 million trees' worth of bulk mail in American mailboxes every year, or the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months! US companies sent 100 billion pieces of bulk mail in 2005. And 5.8 million tons ended up in the solid waste stream, or enough to fill over 450,000 garbage trucks. Less than 36percent of this ad mail was recycled. The production and disposal of direct mail consumes more energy than three million cars. One study says …
Susan Verdicchio
11:22 am on Saturday, December 18, 2010
There's also catalogchoice.org as another option. more ›