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Catalog Choice
Catalog Choice is a free service that lets you decline catalogs you don't want. It claims that 19 billion catalogs are sent to Americans annually, which uses 53 million trees and produces 5.2 million tons of carbon dioxide.GreenDimes
For a $20 one-time fee, GreenDimes claims it can stop up to 90 percent of junk mail. Also offers a free service to help you do it yourself.Stop the Junk Mail
Stop the Junk Mail offers a 100 percent guarantee that if you're not completely satisfied with the job it's done you can request a refund. The service costs less than $20 a year.
Choose alternative paper
Costa Rica Natural Ecopaper
Costa Rica Natural produces Ecopaper, high quality, treeless paper made through an organic paper-making process. Try lemon paper, banana paper, coffee paper, and many other styles.Green Field Paper
Green Field Paper offers a variety of tree-free papers, including machine-made hemp paper, Seed Embedded Paper (embedded with wildflower seeds), 100 percent junk mail paper, and Gilroy garlic paper (infused with garlic skins for a refined appearance).Living Tree Paper
This company makes coated and non-coated paper that mixes chlorine-free agricultural materials like flax, straw, and hemp with post-consumer waste fibers. Living Tree Paper claims to "push the limits in environmentally-sound paper."The Great Elephant PooPoo Paper
This handmade paper stationery is made from naturally dried elephant dung collected from elephant conservation parks. Natural fibers are added to thicken and strengthen the paper. A portion of proceeds from sales goes to elephant welfare and conservation.TreeFree Paper
TreeFree Paper offers top quality, high speed copy paper made from 100 percent sugar cane husk (normally an agricultural waste product that's also called bagasse). The company is family-owned and operated.Vision Paper
Vision Paper produces environmentally positive printing papers and envelopes that are distributed nationally. The paper is made from kenaf, a fast-growing plant related to cotton and okra.
Comments
2:15am
First, it is not illegal to send anyone catalogs in the mail. It is illegal to spam by email, it is illegal to telemarket after being told to be put on the “do not call” list, it is NOT illegal to send print catalogs even if you ask to be taken off the mailing list. I would hear all the time “I’m going to sue you for sending these catalogs”. Yeah well, knock yourself out pal, it’s not illegal…get over it.
Fact: You can get off of a company’s list by calling them. If they know you aren’t going to buy from them they aren’t going to waste money by sending you another catalog.
Fiction: That will get you off of all lists. Not gonna happen, and contacting the list distributors isn’t going to do it either. Your information will be bought by another company and the list services aren’t going to throw money away. Also, don’t bother to ask to be taken off the rent/sell list, you wont be. Those individual companies sell your information and they too are not going to throw money away. http://marketmailing.com
11:08pm
This is terrible! My heart is bleeding every time I get another patch of those "coupon packets" or a whole bunch of catalogs...I never look at them and would love to have a way to "opt out". Not because it's too much trouble to recycle but because it's so not eco-friendly to send me all that sh*t.
Maybe we should make the whole mailing-list illegal?
12:42am
des? r u and the other ppl talking about "water melon" or something else?
besides...
its the grl that sits next 2 u in math class