Stop Junk Mail - a Personal Nuisance & Environmental Hazard
Fact: More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail. 42% of timber harvested nationwide becomes pulpwood for paper.
Fact: The energy used to produce and dispose of junk mail exceeds 2.8 million cars.
Fact: About 28 billion gallons of water are wasted to produce and recycle junk each year.
Fact: You waste about 70 hours a year dealing with junk mail.
Fact: The average adult receives 41 pounds of junk mail each year (about 560 pieces). 44% goes to the landfill unopened.
Fact: Junk mail inks have high concentrations of heavy metals, making the paper difficult to recycle.
Junk Mail Be Gone!
Vent Your IRE About Junk Mail!
Junk Mail Be Gone!
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Your Mailbox Today
Below are just a handful of many relevant and realistic figures that verify the need for junk mail reduction.
* The pulp and paper industry is the single largest consumer of water used in industrial activities in developed countries, and it's the third-largest industrial greenhouse gas emitter (after the chemical and steel industries).* More than 62 billion pieces (4 million tons) of junk mail are produced each year.
* $320 million of local taxes are used to dispose of junk mail each year. California's state and local governments spend $500,000 a year collecting and disposing of AOL's direct mail disks alone.
* Lists of names and addresses used in bulk mailings reside in mass data-collection networks. Your name is typically worth 3 to 20 cents each time it is sold.
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Stopping Junk Mail
Use these tips to reduce your junk mail and phone calls!
Stopping Junk Mail
Junk mail... it's not only a pain, it can also be a source of temptation for those on a budget. If you'd like to start the year with a cleaner mailbox, here's a special delivery from money reporter Stacy Johnson...
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What Stopping Junk Mail And Phone Calls Means To YOU...
Protect your identity, your privacy, and the environment!
* By reducing your junk mail for 5 years, you'll conserve 1.7 trees and 700 gallons of water, and prevent 460 pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere - and you'll gain about 350 hours of free time!* By stopping credit card offers and other junk mail and calls, you'll help protect your identity from theft and fraud.
Stopping Junk Mail On Google
- Turn this Halloween Green - Sign the Petition to Stop Junk Mail
- Brought to you by San Francisco based ForestEthics, this petition needs your support to end Junk Mail.
- How to stop junk mail
- ProQuo is a free junk-mail reduction service. In the future, they intend to make money when consumers opt-in to request offers; ProQuo will make money from those advertisers. I tried this service today. It lets you stop many services ...
- Reduce the Junk Mail Coming to Your House
- Stop junk mail: This is obviously your number one option. Unless you find junk mail an exciting read (I sure hope not) then why not cancel it?Over 100 million trees are used up to create junk mail, and you really don't want to be a part ...
- Stop Junk Mail: 7 Ways to Reduce It and Opt Out for Good
- Nine million cars, seven US states combined, or the emissions generated by heating nearly 13 million homes for the winter: That's junk mail's carbon contribution toward climate change, according to a report (pdf) by ForestEthics, ...
The Direct Marketing Association also has a telephone preference service that will remove your name from telemarketer's lists.
No more annoying telephone calls at dinner time!
The address to stop junk phone calls:Telephone Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008.
Is junk mail taking over your mailbox? Are you harassed by unwanted phone calls at home?
How To Stop Telemarketing Calls
Make your life less stressful and make some cash at the same time
~BadMsM
How To Stop Telemarketing Calls
http://www.videojug.com - Learn how to stop telemarketers from calling you and how to fight back against telemarketing companies by taking them to court. For some more mischievous ideas about dealing with telemarketers, visit http://www.videojug.com/tag/telemarketing
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Opt Out Link List
Junk Mail Stats & Info for Opting Out and getting your privacy back!
- Junk Mail Reduction Fact Sheet
- Stats and info about junk mail
- Do-it-yourself: Stop junk mail, email and phone calls
- A free guide to reducing unwanted or intrusive advertising
- DMA's Mail Preference Service
- DMA's Mail Preference Service (MPS) is the Official Mail Preference Service for the Catalog and Direct Marketing community supported by the United States Postal Service.
- Catalog Choice.org
- Eliminate unwanted catalogs you receive
- 41 pounds.org
- The average adult receives 41 pounds of junk mail each year. Our service stops 80-95% of unwanted catalogs and junk mail for you. We'll contact dozens of companies on your behalf to
STOP YOUR JUNK MAIL and PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT.
Note: This is a PAID service, but proceeds are donated to the green charity of your choice. - ValPack Mailing List Removal Request
- The following request form should be used to remove your address from the Valpak® mailing list. This will remove your address from the Valpak blue envelope mailing list only.
- Green Dimes
- Stop Junk Mail! Take Control of Your Mailbox! We stop up to 90% of your junk mail and plant 10 trees on your behalf. Note: this is a PAID service.
- OptOutPrescreen.com
- OptOutPrescreen.com is a centralized service to accept and process requests from consumers to "Opt-In" or "Opt-Out" of firm offers of credit or insurance.
- JUNKBUSTERS Telemarketing Headlines
- How to reduce junk phone calls
- THE NATIONAL DO NOT CALL REGISTRY
- The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Register online or call 888-382-1222.
Prevention: Stopping Junk Mail Before It Starts
Tips to help you stay off junk mail and call listings
Opt-Out when filling in forms or applications.Let the organization know NOT to sell, rent or trade your information to third parties, check the "opt-out" box (I've even written it across the bottom of the form if there's no box to check).
DMA's Mail Preference Service (MPS) is the Official Mail Preference Service for the Catalog and Direct Marketing community supported by the United States Postal Service.
In the U.S.A.:
Mail Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008.
In Canada:
Mail Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association of Canada
1 Concord Gate, Suite 607
Don Mills, Ontario
M3C 3N6
In the U.K.:
Mail Preference Service
1 Leeward House Plantation Wharf
London SW113TY
England
Donate anonymously.
Donate anonymously online at Network For Good.org to avoid getting all those calendars, address labels and cards, while still supporting their cause.
Watch those warranty cards!
This is one of the biggest tools used by companies to build their mailing lists. You don't need to return the card most of the time, but if you do, leave the "lifestyle" section blank, giving them only your name and address. DO NOT put your phone number down, either!
Tell them when ordering by phone.
Make your preferences known to the operator taking the call that you do not wish to have your information sold, traded or rented to third parties.
Recycle what you can.
Some stuff is still going to make it through your fortress of anti-junk, so recycle what you can AFTER running it through a shredder. If you're not sure about your local recycling program, go to Earth911.org and check out programs by entering your zip code.
STOP THE TELEMARKETERS
With some creative advice for stopping junk mail...
STOP THE TELEMARKETERS
Try these tips to rid yourself of telemarketers and even junk mail :D
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How Do You Combat Intrusions On Your Privacy?
Anti-Junk Mail Warriors Unite!
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opalship
Interesting topic, "OPT OUT" is my new Sanibel Air Traffic" petition, opting out of that issue has proven a hard battle. I hope to have won. Posted August 16, 2008 |
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GypsyPirate
I rarely send in warranty cards, as you've suggested here, and opt out of anything I can whenever that is an option. I love your tips here, and you've given me some fresh ideas. Great page!! Posted February 28, 2008 |
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badmsm
I ususally inform them I don't want to be on their lists, and I own a Tele-Zapper. But these political calls and mailings...oy vey! Need to stop those, too. Posted February 07, 2008 |

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