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 Is junk mail driving you nuts, creating clutter and taking up your valuable time? Here are some tips and useful sites to eliminate or reduce junk mail in your life. We all get it and no one likes it but how do we tame the tide of junk mail that finds its way into our homes. Reasons to get rid of junk mail: • Save time spent sorting it out • Keep clutter off your counters • Reduce the amount of paper you have to recycle • Saves wear and tear on your shredder • Saves time sorting, making decisions, shredding About 70 hours a year are spent dealing with junk mail • Save money on local taxes. Millions of local taxes are used to dispose of unsolicited mail every year The following facts are from https://www.41pounds.org/statistics/ • Save trees. More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail. 42% of timber harvested nationwide becomes pulpwood for paper. • Reduce global warming. The energy used to produce and dispose of junk mail exceeds 2.8 million cars. • Save water. About 28 billion gallons of water are wasted to produce and recycle junk each year. An average of 41 pounds of junk mail is sent to every adult citizen each year. Approximately 44% of this mail goes into a landfill unopened. A web site called 41 pounds.org offers a service to help reduce the amount of junk mail coming into your home. The cost for this service is $41.00 and lasts for 5 years. More than 1/3 of your fee goes to the environmental or community group you choose. Some other sites to reduce unwanted mail are: • DirectMail.com-a quick, free way to reduce junk mail. • DMA Consumer Assistance--For the past 36 years, the Direct Marketing Association has made it possible to opt-out of mailing lists through its Mail Preference Service. • www.Catalogchoice.org This is a free service that lets you decline paper catalogs you no longer wish to receive. Reduce the amount of unsolicited mail in your mail box, while it helps to preserve the environment. • Optout-never receive a pre-approved credit card offer again. Do it online or call 1-888-5-OPTOUT. • Ecological Mail Coalition--Businesses stop unwanted mail through this free service. • Native Forest Network's Guide--five easy steps to stop junk Here are some facts from their web site: • The average person gets only 1.5 personal letters each week, compared to 10.8 pieces of junk mail. • Each person will receive almost 560 pieces of junk mail this year. • That's 4.5 million tons of junk mail produced each year! • 44% of all junk mail is thrown in the trash, unopened and unread. • Approximately 40% of the solid mass that makes up our landfills is paper and paperboard waste. • By the year 2010, it is predicted to make up about 48%. • 100 million trees are ground up each year to produce junk mail. • Lists of names and addresses used in bulk mailings are in mass data-collection networks, compiled from phone books, warranty cards, and charity donations (to name a few). • Your name is typically worth 3 to 20 cents each time it is sold. Junk mail is not going to go away. They generate a lot of business. Reducing waste, helping the environment and honoring customer choice is important and we can chose what is important to us to be put in our mail boxes. |
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