Save Some Trees

Environmental Groups Cutting Catalog Stacks

An article about "Catalog Choice" was in the paper today - I signed up - seems to makes a lot of sense.

All of us get catalogs (especially this time of the year) we do not want or even look at them.  And between my husband and me, we get a lot of duplicates. I know I use the internet 95% of the time when I buy something other than at a store.  I cannot think of the last time I I flipped through a catalog, bent the page, drew a circle around the item or stuck a post-it to next to a selection...and then called in an order.  We end up putting then in a stack, wrapping twine around them, then off to the recycling center. It is wasteful.

So, this is a painless way to get off those mailing lists.   A coalition of environmental groups has introduced a free Web site, CatalogChoice.org, that allows people to remove themselves from more than 1,000 mailing lists.

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While the site's users may be primarily interested in avoiding heavy tomes from the likes of Pottery Barn and Lands' End, the environmental groups say they are more concerned with reducing the number of catalogs sent to Americans every year (19 billion) and the number of trees used to make them (53 million trees)

 

1 Comments on Save Some Trees

Thanks for this post, Peg, I will go there and unsign myself right away. It is too late for this holiday season but it will slow them down to a trickle for next year. You might want to post this in the Eco Green group too.

12/10/2007 08:35 PM by Bonnie Westbrook Grand Rapids MI Real Estate Marketing (Five Star Real Estate Ada MI)


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