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Five years after the establishment of the historic national Do Not Call registry, ForestEthics champions consumer rights by launching its own Do Not Mail campaign to stem the tide of junk mail.
The environmental non-profit, which has offices in the United States, Canada, and Chile, is urging Americans to sign a petition at DoNotMail.org to demand a national registry that will offer us control over the unsolicited coupons, credit-card offers, catalogs, and advertisements that make their way through our mailboxes every day.
"The Do Not Call Registry of 2003 addressed a nuisance-telemarketers' calls at dinnertime," says Todd Paglia, executive director of ForestEthics in a press release. "Do Not Mail also addresses a nuisance, but junk mail has the added consequence of serious environmental effects that must be confronted if we are to stop climate change and reckless deforestation."
Not-so-fun fact: It takes more than 100 million trees-as well as global-warming-emissions equivalent of 3.7 million cars-to produce the 100 billion pieces of junk mail that Americans receive ever year. U.S. junk mail currently accounts for 30 percent of the mail delivered in the world, according to ForestEthics, although 44 percent of it goes to landfills unopened. ::DoNotMail.org
See also: ::Stop Junk Mail Before It Starts
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