Sun Break -- Washington's Do-Not-Mail Registry Could Save 200,000 Trees Per Year
by RVO,
http://thesunbreak.com/2010/01/08/washingtons-do-not-mail-registry-could-save-200000-trees-per-year
January 7th, 2010
Now the Seattle City Council has the chance to right a litany of
wrongs when they vote on a resolution to petition the state legislature
to ban junk mail. The council will vote for the resolution to create a
Do-Not-Mail-Registry on January 11.
I could reel off a massive list of environmental reasons it's a good
idea. The appropriately, and somewhat humorously-named group ForestEthics sent
around a blast email to local media chock full of the "environmental
impacts" of the local junk mail trade. For the ultimate guilt trip,
consider these factoids:
- Almost 200,000 trees are cut for Seattle's junk mail every year
- Junk mail sent to Seatteites causes global warming gases equal to almost 6,000 cars, due to logging and industrial emissions
- It costs more than $400,000 a year to dispose of Seattle's junk mail.
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