Stop physical spam
I’ve declared today a personal Stop Junk Mail Day and am taking all the relevant steps to prevent my address being distributed.
Here’s how to stop junk mail, and here are some good reasons why:
The environmental impact of junk mail is substantial. In 1991, 62 million trees were cut for junk mail. Over 74,000 acres of trees were cut just for catalogs. In 1989, 63.7 billion pieces were sent, including 55 billion catalogs. This represents 7.4 billion pounds of junk mail. Pulp processing to produce paper for junk mail requires 25 billion gallons of water.
Don’t bother with a commercial stop junk mail kit; it doesn’t save much effort over doing it yourself by following the advice in the first link above.
Hello there, came over from BoingBoing
I have been doing the no-junkmail drill for about a decade. You see, I order a lot of products via catalog, and the deluge tends to build up. Also, about 5 years ago I moved 3 times in 13 months....The real trick is to get a bunch of postcards, cut out the mailing label from every piece of junk mail you want to get rid of, and send that back to the DMMA. This is the quickest.
Posted by Liz on June 12 2004 17:51