100 Million Trees Become Junk Mail Each Year
It seems like at least 90% of what ends up in your mail box is nothing but junk mail. While it’s a hassle to dig through all of the useless mail to find the important stuff, the problem is much more serious than that. Every year over 100 million trees are turned into paper just to end up in your mail box, quickly thrown in the trash and hauled off to waste fills!
If you’re tired of getting dealing with all that junk mail and you want to do your part for the environment, there are ways to opt out of receiving it. Inhabitat.com has a detailed article on several opt out services that you can use to keep your mailbox cleaner and help save the environment at the same time.
One service will even allow you to stop all of the “current resident” mail that you receive. Even if a small percentage of people would put a stop to their junk mail, it would save millions of trees each year and help in keeping the land fills a little emptier.