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An even easier way than calling organizations and companies directly to remove your name, is to do it all in one place. Many of these services are free some, charge you for the dirty work.

Find it! Organizations that will take your name off mailing lists

To address the problem of unsolicited mail, several organizations have developed services that assist you in getting your name of mailing lists.

Taking your name off mailing lists helps you go green because…

• It can reduce your unsolicited mail by up to 90 percent.[1]

You can cut the amount of junk mail you receive yourself by signing up for the Direct Marketing Association's "do not mail" list and contacting individual companies to ask them not to send you unsolicited mail. A more convenient (though costlier) way to go is to hire an organization to do these things for you.

Every year, each adult in the United States receives nearly 560 pieces, or about 41 pounds, of unsolicited mail. That's nearly seven times the amount of personal mail received (10.8 pieces of junk mail per week versus 1.5 personal letters). Even worse, approximately 44 percent of this unsolicited mail is carted to landfills unopened, unread, and unrecycled, costing US taxpayers $320 million each year.[2]

It's estimated that 100 million trees are used annually to produce all that junk mail.[3] In addition to loss of trees, processing all that paper requires 28 billion gallons of water.[4] What's more, creating and transporting this amount of mail results in more greenhouse gas emissions than 2.8 million cars produce in a year.[2]

External links

• Salon - Stop Junk Mail for Good
• RecycleWorks - Reduce Residential Junk Mail