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Stop that
junk mail
To the editor:
Just because Earth Day is over, let’s not forget what it was all about.
Here is another simple solution to what we may not think of as an environmental hazard, but more of just a nuisance: junk mail. If you saved up all of your unwanted paper you’ll receive in the mail this year, you’d have the equivalent of one and a half trees. So would each of your neighbors. That adds up to about 100 million trees every year.
The junk mail Americans receive in one day could produce enough energy to heat 250,000 homes. We receive almost two million tons of the stuff and about 44 percent of that is never even opened or read.
If 100,000 people stopped their junk mail, we could save about 150,000 trees each year. If a million ■ people did, we could save some 1.5 million trees
Stop your’s now. Write to: Mail Preference Service, Direct Marketing Association, 11 West 42nd St., P.O. Box 3861, New York, NY 10163-3861. They’ll stop your name from being sold to most large mailing list companies, which will reduce your junk mail up to 75 percent.
You can also recycle you mail. If it’s printed on newsprint, toss it in with newspapers. If it’s quality, make a separate pile for it — many recycling centers accept both white and colored paper. Envelopes are recyclable, too — as long as they don’t have plastic windows in them.
KAREN HATHAWAY
Washington
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