This week’s tip: Clean out your catalogs.
Go to catalogchoice.org for a free service that helps you unsubscribe in just three easy steps. Be sure to have your catalogs with you -- you’ll need information off the address label.
Each year, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers.
What’s the impact?
• Number of trees used – 53 million trees
• Pounds of paper used – 3.6 million tons of paper
• Energy used to produce this volume of paper – 38 trillion BTUs, enough to power 1.2 million homes per year
• Contribution to global warming – 5.2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, equal to the annual emissions of two million cars
• Waste water discharges from this volume of paper – 53 billion gallons of water, enough to fill 81,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools
(Environmental impact estimates were made using the Environmental Defense paper calculator.)
The Catalog Choice community is presently 589,510 persons strong, having already opted out of 7,370,906 catalogs. You, too, can join and make a difference!
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