Reduce Paper/Catalogs
Reduce your clutter, save some trees and retain your sanity with this new and exciting website. CatalogChoice.org
is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox.
Use it to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural
resources.
Go to Catalogchoice.org and register - it only takes a few moments and you'll be on your way to a cleaner mailbox and a cleaner environment.
DID YOU KNOW....Each year, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers?
What’s the impact?
- Number of trees used – 53 million trees
- Pounds of paper used – 3.6 million tons of paper
- Energy used to produce this volume of paper – 38 trillion BTUs, enough to power 1.2 million homes per year
- Contribution to global warming – 5.2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, equal to the annual emissions of two million cars
- Waste water discharges from this volume of paper – 53 billion gallons of water, enough to fill 81,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools
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