Green LA Girl -- Stop junk mail: A Complete guide to getting just the mail you want
,July 4th, 2009
Stopping junk mail’s easy — theoretically — since all you need to do is say no. But because you have to say no to so many different companies — and may want to preserve one or two coupon mailers you use — de-cluttering your mail box can get difficult pretty fast. This perhaps explains why so many people still get — and complain about — the amount of junk mail they get.
Junk mail’s un-eco effect’s the equivalent of more than nine million cars (PDF) or the emissions generated by heating nearly 13 million homes for the winter, according to a study by ForestEthics.
Don’t see why you should have to do all this work to stop junk mail you never asked for in the first place? Then sign ForestEthics’ Do Not Mail Petition, which is pushing lawmakers to create a national Do Not Mail list, similar to the existing Do Not Call list. So far, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors want a Do Not Mail Registry and passed a resolution calling on California to create one — but the resolution’s non-binding and has no actual power to help people make the junk mail stop.