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Natural Resources:
- 100 million trees are ground up each year for
unsolicited mail.
- Annually 28 billion gallons of water are used
up to process the paper.
- Scarce landfill space disfigures rural areas
and pollutes ground water.
- Approximately 340,000 garbage trucks, and all
of the fossil fuels required to power them, are needed to haul
away mailings that don't quite make it to the recycling bins.
Waste:
- In 1999 catalogs and other direct mailings weighing
in at 5.6 million tons entered into the solid waste stream.
- 44% of all junk mail is thrown in the trash,
unopened and unread.
- Approximately 40% of the solid mass that makes
up our landfills is paper and paperboard waste.
- By the year 2010, it is predicted to make up
about 48%.
Thousands of pounds of CO2 and Dioxin are emitted each year in
the production and transport of junk mail.
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