{"id":2084,"date":"2006-05-07T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/05\/07\/the-high-costs-of-junk-mail\/"},"modified":"2006-05-07T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T14:46:00","slug":"the-high-costs-of-junk-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-high-costs-of-junk-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"The High Costs of Junk Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomblog.us\/junkmail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freedomblog.us\/junkmail.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomblog.us\/\">Freedom Blog<\/a>, written by US Army officers Bill Perkins and Ike Wilson, is quickly becoming one of my favorites because of the very thorough analysis they do.  Yesterday, Bill published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomblog.us\/2006\/05\/06\/how-junk-mail-is-killing-our-planet\/\">this post<\/a> on the likely environmental costs of junk mail; look at the numbers he came up with:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Assuming that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>each person in America gets 15 pages of junk mail per day<\/li>\n<li>the average tree produces 80,000 sheets of paper<\/li>\n<li>there are 296 million people in America<\/li>\n<li>there are 700 trees in an acre,<\/li>\n<li>100 sheets of paper weighs one pound<\/li>\n<li>each piece of junk mail travels 200 miles by car<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>then each year in America:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>17 million trees are killed to produce junk mail<\/li>\n<li>24,770 acres of trees are killed to produce junk mail<\/li>\n<li>42 million gallons of gasoline are burned to transport junk mail<\/li>\n<li>821 million pounds of CO2 are released into the atmosphere from burning gasoline to transport junk mail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s what <em>I<\/em> think about when I get junk mail.  Even if, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paper_recycling#_note-0\">as stated by Wikipedia<\/a>, there is a 45% paper recycling rate in America, half of that number of trees is a lot of destruction of living things so that we can have junk mail. Is it any wonder that our civilization is rapidly bringing the earth to its knees?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These are just Bill&#8217;s conclusions &#8212; he does a very thorough job of explaining the reasoning behind the numbers.  The one point he makes that we can&#8217;t stress enough: this has got to be a very productive form of advertising, or it wouldn&#8217;t happen&#8230; I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve pointed to the Center for a New American Dream&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newdream.org\/junkmail\/index.php\">&#8220;Declare Your Independence from Junk Mail&#8221; campaign<\/a> before, but now is certainly a good time to mention it again, as they have a full range of resources for getting yourself removed from junk mail lists&#8230;. Do it!<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/junkmail\" rel=\"tag\">junkmail<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/environment\" rel=\"tag\">environment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/lumber\" rel=\"tag\">lumber<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/paper\" rel=\"tag\">paper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/carbon\" rel=\"tag\">carbon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/emissions\" rel=\"tag\">emissions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/costs\" rel=\"tag\">costs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom Blog, written by US Army officers Bill Perkins and Ike Wilson, is quickly becoming one of my favorites because of the very thorough analysis they do. 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