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This awesome site by New American Dream sets you up to set you free from the ridiculous amount of junk mail served up to us consumers each year.

They've set up an automated form letter to help you get off those junk mail lists, or you can pay $41 to have an organization to it for you (41pounds.org).

Did you know?

U.S. companies sent 35 billion pieces of direct postal mail in 1980, 64 billion pieces in 1990, and 90 billion pieces in 2000.

More than 100 million trees’ worth of bulk mail arrive in American mail boxes each year – that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.

In 2003, 5.4 million tons of catalogs and other direct mailings ended up in the U.S. municipal solid waste stream – enough to fill over 420,000 garbage trucks. Parked bumper to bumper these garbage trucks would extend from Atlanta to Albuquerque. Only 32% of this ad mail was recycled.

The production and disposal of junk mail consumes more energy than 2.8 million cars.

Citizens and local governments spend hundreds of millionsof dollars per year to collect and dispose of all the bulk mail that doesn’t get recycled.

We need a Do Not Junk Registry, just like the Do Not Call Registry that has worked so well.

Get involved with New America Dream's Petition!

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