Do you receive way too much junk mail? Here are some tips to lighten your junk mail load:
The issue
- Every year, each of us receives almost 560 pieces of junk mail, accounting for 43% of all delivered mail!
- Every year, the US EPA estimates 44% of junk mail isn’t even opened, creating four tons of waste!
- Every year, junk mail uses as much energy as almost three million cars!
- Every year, junk mail consumes 100 million trees or approximately 550,000 tons of paper!
- Every year in the US, households receive 540 million unsolicited phonebooks creating an additional 650,000 tons of trash.
- Every week, we typically receive 1.5 personal letters and 11 pieces of junk mail!
- Every day, 250,000 homes could be heated from a single day's accumulated junk mail!
Be part of the solution
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2009.