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Stop the Junk

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A huge amount of junk mail is sent each year – 85,000,000,000 catalogs, credit card offers, and other ads.  This requires literally 100 million trees’ worth of paper, and is mostly unwanted and discarded.

How can we reduce this waste?  Obviously, it’s important for us to recycle the junk we get.  But more important, we need the industry to do its part to cut down on waste: send less mail and use more recycled paper.

Unfortunately, this is a huge industry, and it is sending billions of pieces of mail every week.  We should definitely recycle, but alone, each one of us is a pretty small drop in the bucket.

By joining together, we’ll make a big impact on recycling, and get the industry to notice us.  Join the Green Life pledge: we promise to recycle junk mail, and we’re calling on companies to do their part to reduce paper waste too.

Click here to join our pledge!

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