More than 100,000,000,000 pieces of junk mail are received by Americans each year. 1/3 of all the mail delivered in the world is U.S. junk mail. Can you believe it? 44% of junk mail is never opened and devastating, only 22% of that is recycled. Junk mail alone uses 100 million trees, wastes 28 billion gallons of water and pumps 2.8 million cars worth of C02 into our atmosphereannually. On average Americans spend 8 months of our lives opening junk mail.
Here are some steps you can take to stop the junk mail:
* Sign an online petition supporting a national registry to stop junk mail at donotmail.org.
* Go to OptOutPrescreen.com to opt out of Credit Bureaus sharing your information with junk mail distributors.
* Stop Catalogs at Abacus Catalog Alliance.
* Try a service like Tonic Mailstopper that will stop 90% of your junk mail in only 90 days or 41pounds.org which will stop most junk mail for 5 years.
