Every month, we are offering a tip to encourage our school community to be more eco-friendly. The tips may be small, but they can amount to big changes that help our children have a healthy and thriving planet in the future.
Do you enjoy receiving junk mail? Few people do. Besides being annoying, did you know junk mail is also incredibly harmful to the environment? According to Harvard University, each year more than 100 million trees’ worth of bulk mail arrives in American mailboxes—that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months!
So you want to cut junk mail… but how? There are a few approaches you can take, so let’s just start with one this month - reducing prescreened credit card and insurance offers mailed to your address. Here are the steps:
Call toll-free 1-888-5-OPT-OUT (1-888-567-8688) or visit optoutprescreen.com.
If using the website, scroll to bottom of the page and click “Click here to opt-out.”
You can then choose to opt out for 5 years or permanently. Opting out permanently requires mailing in a form (kinda ironic, right?), but opting out for 5 years can all be done online.
Fill out the form and you’re done! (Unless you are opting out permanently - then you’ll need to mail the form in).
And that’s it for this month. In the next two months, we’ll tackle reducing direct mailers and catalogs, so stay tuned!
