Cut Down on Junk Mail

Ever go to your mailbox after a week or so and its overstuffed with junk mail and useless catalog's? And then you go through your mail and one by one toss it all in the garbage nearby. Well suppose you could do the environment a big favor by reducing the amount of junk mail you receive by 90%.

Cut down on junk mail you receive today to save energy, natural recourse's, landfill space, tax dollars and a lot of personal time. Here are some startling facts.

• 5.6 million tons of catalogs and other direct mail advertisements end up in U.S. landfills annually.
• The average American household receives unsolicited junk mail equal to 1.5 trees every year—more than 100 million trees for all U.S. households combined.
• 44 percent of junk mail is thrown away unopened, but only half that much junk mail (22 percent) is recycled.
• Americans pay $370 million annually to dispose of junk mail that doesn’t get recycled
• On average, Americans spend 8 months opening junk mail in the course of their lives.

So if you decide to make the decision to cut junk mail out of your life there are a few ways to go about it. One being you can register your name on a "Do Not Mail" list at the Direct Marketing Agency (DMN). You can also go to OptOutPreScreen.com, which can enable you to remove your name from lists that mortgage, credit card and insurance companies use to mail you offers and solicitations. Surely this wont get rid of all the junk mail but you can get further information on it at JunkBusters.com to rid your life of the junk once and for all.

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