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 the New York University School of Law, junk mail manufacturing creates as much greenhouse gas emissions annually as 3.7 million cars! (largely due to deforestation)
So are you ready to reduce your junk mail? Last month, we tackled reducing prescreened credit card offers. This month, let’s tackle reducing direct mailers from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA).
--Visit www.dmachoice.org and click on Get Started.
--Enter your personal information and pay $2 to stop to opt out of direct mailers for ten years.
Note that it can take 3-4 months to notice a difference since many mailings are already in print or production, so don’t get discouraged if you still see junk mail even after taking this step. Also, this step won’t stop all direct mailers and catalogs. We’ll talk more about that next month.
