In a single year, Americans receive 19 billion catalogs in the mail. That boils down to 3.6 million tons of paper at the cost of 53 million trees. And that’s not to mention all the rest of the junky junk mail that seems to flood our mailboxes like a swarm of locusts. Production of the paper used for American catalogs uses the same amount of energy required to power 1.2 million homes in a year, and contributes annual emissions equal to that created by 2 million cars. That’s incredibly significant! All to get us to buy buy buy more junk. It’s just madness.*
So let's reduce the number of catalogs and junk mail we receive, and therefore, reduce the energy consumed and the paper used to create these products. To do this, you can visit Catalog Choice and sign up to opt out or simply send an e-mail to the customer service department of the company sending you the catalogs.
With the way these mailing lists work, it will likely take two or three catalog cycles to stop receiving catalogs, but what a difference it will make!
Don't have time to do this yourself? Then put one of your kids in charge of collecting the catalogs that you want to stop. Then they can send out the e-mail that you have drafted requesting to be removed from the mailing list or they can be in charge of adding those catalogs to your list on Catalog Choice.
Remember... every effort helps!