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The Columbus Dispatch -- Credit-card offers start to multiply"Junk mail is inherently wasteful," said Mark Schofield of ForestEthics, which has worked with retailers to reduce the number of catalogs sent to people's homes. The group has been working with five of the largest credit-card companies - Bank of America, Chase, American Express, Discover and Capital One - to reduce paper and use more recycled paper.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram -- Fort Worth senior deals with a mountain of junk mailIn 2008 ForestEthics launched a website (DoNotMail.org) that listed the problems spawned by direct advertising and included a petition supporting a Do Not Mail Registry. The petition has more than 115,000 signatures. "Many people don't realize how easily their names and personal information are bought and sold," said Will Craven, a ForestEthics media officer. "It's quite easy to buy a list that targets very specific groups, people who are most vulnerable."
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Help build a case against the worst junk mailers: Submit your junk mail storyWe have all had at least one unpleasant experience with junk mail, and ForestEthics needs to hear about yours so that we can amass evidence that the worst junk mailers -- including Chase, GEICO, Bank of America, Discover, Capital One, and AmEx -- need to shape up and stop shipping out all this worthless crap.
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