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- Reducing 1 tonne of junk mail saves 17 trees, 2.3 cubic metres if landfill, 31,400 litres of water, 4,200 kilowatt hours of energy, 1,600 litres of oil and avoids 26 kilograms of air pollutants. (Source: Environment Agency, UK)
- The book 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth (Earthworks) featured stopping junk mail as its number 1 recommendation.
- 21 billion junk mail items are distributed to UK households on average every year.
- On average, each UK household receives 18 items of junk mail every week.
- The annual total of unsolicited mail and hand-delivered flyers in the UK weighs about 550,000 tonnes. The vast majority of this is unsolicited unaddressed junk mail.
- Australians receive on average 8.2 billion unaddressed flyers, leaflets and catalogues in their letterboxes every year. If each household said no to junk mail that could save almost 1,000 pieces of unwanted junk each year!
- Most of the junk mail jammed into Australian letterboxes is manufactured by a company that produces Australia's magazine paper. About 70-80% of the content comes from timber plantations. Very little recycled content is used.
- Americans spend over $275 million per annum to dispose of junk mail.
- 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 the USA the production and disposal of junk mail consumes more energy than 2.8 million cars.
- In the USA, an estimated 100 million trees a year are cut down to produce paper used for junk mail, and 28 billion gallons of water are used in the process.
Our statement on the homepage about what you could personally save the environment is based on our conservative estimates. We believe that over 450,000 tonnes of unsolicited junk mail is delivered every year to households in the UK.
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