Did you know that 53 million trees are chopped every year to produce 19 billion catalogs to be mailed to American consumers?
Do you receive a lot of junk catalogs?
I’ve received junk catalogs and I’m sure you have too. I used to recycle them, but since last fall, I’ve successfully unsubscribed via a free service online.
Interested?
The next time you receive an unwanted catalog addressed to you or a former occupant, go to Catalog Choice, a sponsored project of the Ecology Center and endorsed by the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In related news, I recently posted of North Shore Magazine that sent me unsolicited mail earlier this month.
I’ve since received more.
All of the mailings indicate the magazine is a sponsor, so I’m guessing either the magazine assumes I want to receive them or it’s sharing my mailing address with the coordinating PR firm.
Either way, I’ll be contacting the magazine to not send me anything but the magazine.
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Ari Herzog is an online media strategist and Newburyport City Councilor-Elect.
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AMEN…Thank you for the link to that wonderful service. Jaci and I just moved into our first house and the people before us must have been catalog JUNKIES! I can’t wait to start zapping myself off their mailing lists.
Planting trees is THE…MOST…PRACTICAL way to wage war on excessive carbon in our atmosphere. Chopping them down for underwear catalogs is the least practical.
Those 53 million trees…who counted them? No, seriously, it’s a good point, a huge amount of energy is wasted in farming crop trees for paper pulp, but one thing that is often distorted in eco writing is that it is farmed trees that are used, it’s not mahogany and ebony in rainforests.
Andy: Hey now, one of the girls who used to live in my apartment subscribed to Victoria’s Secret and I saw several issues of underwear and lingerie before unsubscribing through Catalog Choice.
I can think of worse catalogs to analogize.
David: This is true. California’s redwood forest is not being cut down for paper production. Still, trees are being cut in mass.
Eh…the hippie in me still says that if you want to see women in their underwear, save a tree and use the internet! LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for posting this. I have received so many catalogs, and as soon as I managed to get myself off all of the lists, all of sudden I get more catalogs later in the year.
I recycle those catalogs so at least they will be reused for the future.
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Nicole: Do you recycle catalogs or reuse them?
In other words, do you throw them with your other recycled paper and cardboard to be picked up by the recycling truck; or do you give stacks to area libraries, elementary schools, and senior centers for scrapbooking?
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