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We're destroying trees for junk mail: Unsubscribe



According to the nonprofit CatalogChoice.com, "every year, over 100 million trees are cut down to produce junk mail that often goes straight to the trash. What a waste! "

No kidding. We just got an unsolicited 375 page catalog from Uline.com, and we promptly unsubscribed. We googled <Uline.com catalog unsubscribe> to find this link: https://www.uline.com/CustomerService/CustomizeMailing, which did the trick.

You can unsubscribe from catalogs one by one, or you can try a service, like the free CatalogChoice.org.

A NY Times article, How to Cut Down on Junk Mail, also suggests DMAChoice.org, a tool offered by the Data & Marketing Association, lets you remove your name and address from a number of these lists. After registering an account and paying a $2 fee, you can unsubscribe from entire categories of mail — like catalogs and advertisements — or unsubscribe from specific catalogs you don’t want. We're going to try that one today.

You know what else you can do? Take it to social and tell specific companies they need to be part of the climate solution and stop sending junk mail.