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Junk Mail Is Waste. Stop Your Junk Mail!Junk mail is a huge concern, especially in the US, because it requires large amounts of energy to produce and then cause very large amounts of waste to dispose of it all.
"More than 100 million trees' worth of bulk mail arrive in American mail boxes each year – that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months. (New American Dream calculation from Conservatree and U.S. Forest Service statistics)."
(Source: NewDream.org) Production of junk mail also requires vast amounts of chemicals, other resources and produces waste 
Citizens and local governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year to collect and dispose of all the bulk mail that doesn’t get recycled. (Source: New American Dream estimate from EPA statistics) What can you do about Junk Mail? Do not ignore junk mail and just throw it in the trash or landfill. Write to: Mail Preference Service, DirectMarketing Association, P.O. Box 3861, New York, NY 10163-3861. By writing them you can reduce your junk mail by up to 75%. For Additional information: -- Ads by SeaGreenNews.com --
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