From Eco Cycle: Working to Build Zero-Waste Communitieshttp://www.ecocycle.org/index.cfm
More than 41.5 billion pieces of mail advertisements were produced and distributed in the U.S in 2005, according to the Worldwatch Institute.
It took more than 100 million trees to create all this bulk mail – that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.
Even though most junk mail can be recycled, 5.8 million tons of catalogs and other direct mailings ended up as trash in landfills or incinerators in 2005.
And all this comes at a cost to our climate as well: The production and disposal of junk mail consumes more energy than 3 million cars.
Each of us will spend an average of eight months of our lives dealing with junk mail. It's time to reclaim our resources, our time and our mailboxes by stopping junk mail early and often!
Follow the link for ten easy steps on how to stop the flood of junk mail:
http://www.ecocycle.org/junkmail/index.cfm
(Don't have time for the ten steps? Go right to number 9: Hire someone to do it for you! For forty bucks a Junk Mail Removal Service will handle it. Now that sounds like a good use of some green...)
Other sources: http://www.41pounds.org/
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