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Stop junk mail and save the planet; The Internet hasn't slowed down the tree killers, but you can use it to keep catalogs and credit card applications at bay.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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December 23, 2007
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Copyright informationCopyright 2007 Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
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You'd think that with all the spam floating around the Internet,
good old-fashioned junk mail, the kind that clogs your home's
mailbox and the nation's landfills, might be a thing of the past.
Alas, that is not to be. The amount of direct mail that catalog
companies, Internet purveyors and coupon captains send out each year
continues to climb, up from 90.5 billion pieces in 2003 to a
whopping 103.5 billion pieces in 2007, according to the U.S. Postal
Service.
"It's a colossal waste," says Kristi Chester Vance,
communications director of ForestEthics, a group that has worked to
reduce the environmental impact of the catalog industry.
In fact, the annual greenhouse gas emissions from the ...
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