Friday, March 14, 2008

Too much junk mail

From the Stockton (CA) Record:

On average, every household in America receives 848 pieces of junk mail a year. That's more than 100 billion pieces of unsolicited paper using more than 100 million trees...

ForestEthics, an inter-national environmental nonprofit group based in San Francisco, launched its campaign Tuesday to stop junk mail and "take our mailboxes back," according to a statement...

Junk mail distributed by the U.S. Postal Service in the United States accounts for 30 percent of all the mail delivered worldwide, and ForestEthics says 44 percent of that goes to landfills unopened.


All that, and it pisses me off, too? What a deal!

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