Seattlest -- Addicted to Junk
,January 25th, 2010
Today, the Seattle City Council will consider signing a resolution “urging the Washington State Legislature to establish a Do Not Mail Registry,” an opt-in do not mail list that is also gaining traction in San Francisco, New York, and Florida. The reason for the resolution? The United States Postal Service has an insatiable hunger for junk.
The environmental statistics are much too convincing to ignore. Every year an average American household receives 848 pieces of unsolicited mail. Over 100 billion pieces of junk mail delivered each year demand the destruction of 100 million trees, releasing huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere and going quickly into the trash.
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