CANDLELIT CHRONICLES: HISTORIC HAUNTS

Junk Mail's Destruction of the Environment

Today's Issue:

Junk Mail and the Environment

I remember "junk mail" being around since at least the 1960's. That was three decades of junk snail mail before e-mail became possible and then popular, and "spam" was invented online. So now in Feb. 2010, I'm thinking of 5 decades of "junk," which by its very terminology indicates useless, time-wasting, environmentally-destructive, material.





Do YOU know what "Junk" Mail does to the Environment? (Speaking of paper, at the moment):





Check out this data, Gentle Readers:





100 Million Trees cut down each year!! 100 Million! ONLY FOR JUNK!





This doesn't include the trees eradicated for personal, business, and commerical mail.





8 months of the average citizen's life SPENT READING AND SORTING JUNK MAIL





800 junk mail items per year, per household! 41 pounds!!





1/3 of snail mail received on average per year is JUNK!





44% of junk mail annually ends up opened in Landfills, where 50 years later the text is still legible!





12 billion pounds of paper annually spent on junk mail, 10 million of it ending in landfills





Junk Mail is the equivalent of 9,377,000 passenger cars' emissions





http://www.thegreenestdollar.com/2010/01/the-ultimate-list-for-stopping-your-jun...





PAPER is the Number One deposit in Landfills; not (nonbiodegrable) plastic!





Gentle Readers, go peruse these links for yourself-don't ever take my word for it! Read it and Weep!

















http://www.care2.com/greenliving/stop-junk-mail.html





http://www.thegreenestdollar.com/2010/01/the-ultimate-list-for-stopping-your-jun...





http://precycle.tonic.com/





http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/stories/welcome-plentymagcom-...





http://www.care2.com/greenliving/isnt-it-time-to-junk-your-junk-mail-2.html











http://www.41pounds.org/