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Cutting Down on Junk Mail Using Catalog Choice

4th January, 2012 - Posted by katherine - No Comments

One of the Daily Green’s suggestions for 2012 New Year’s resolutions was to try and cut down on junk mail you recieve:

Each year, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers. All those catalogs require more than 53 million trees and 56 billion gallons of wastewater to produce — and many of us don’t even know how we got on so many mailing lists! So grab that stack of catalogs piling up on your coffee table and clear out the clutter. Visit CatalogChoice.org to put a stop to unwanted catalogs. Within 10 weeks, your mailbox will be empty of unwanted catalogs. A less cluttered mailbox means less pollution, less waste and less of the pollution that causes global warming.

So I checked out CatalogChoice.org and signed up. It was really fast and easy and allows you to pick which catalogs you don’t want to receive.  I knew off the top of my head that I’d been getting  a lot of West Elm and Victoria’s Secret catalogs even though I’ve never ordered from one of their catalogs, so I added those in there.  Sounds like a great service!