1000 Flowers for the Planet - #24 Refuse Junk Mail
For the next week I am presenting ideas for
using less paper.
A very easy way to reduce the amount of
paper coming into your home in the first instance is to refuse junk mail. These
days we have advertisements coming at us from every angle. Most of them we have
no control over. However, we can control junk mail by putting a sign on our
letterbox stating “No Junk Mail”. This is how it works in Australia. How does
it work in your country?
Recently, despite the sign on our letterbox
(mailbox), the delivery person found a loophole by putting the junk mail inside our free local newspaper, which
she also delivered. It took a few phone calls to find out who was responsible,
but in the end I was able to ask for this practice to cease. I had received ‘25’
multi-paged advertising brochures in that newspaper. I may not be able to stop
companies from printing their brochures, but if enough people refuse receipt of
them, eventually they may stop wasting paper.
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