Junk Mail
ENS 201 05
Ethan Lederman, Alli Mansfield, Jenna Kay
ENS 201 05
Ethan Lederman, Alli Mansfield, Jenna Kay
Every week you get it, a constant source of annoyance in that gets tossed in the garbage. Junk mail has become such a regular occurance that we no longer question how it reaches us. Even after moving homes it relentlessly follows, hounding us to sign up for credit cards, subsciptions, insurance, and whatever else they can get away with. This issue is relatable to anyone with a mailbox, and it gives people a fresh way to be sustainable. While seemingly harmless all that mail adds up to widespread environmental impact.
More mail means more job security for postal workers
Since The Postal Reorginization Act of 1970
-Seperated the USPS from the goverment, forcing them to find a way to generate income as a direct outcome of US postal strike.
As a result the volume of junk mail has been increasing and its estimated that, over 100 billion pieces are delivered every year.
The USPS made 17 Billion dollars in 2011 from selling our information, and discounting postage rates for advertisment agencies.
Even if you change homes; when you submit a offical permentant change of address through the USPS it will automatically update, adding your name to advertisment lists with the new address. Ensuring that junk mail will follow.
-Over 60% of junk mail goes to landfills
-Costs us 100 million trees annually
-Produces 51 million metric tons of greenhouse gases each year
For a full breakdown and list of resources you can use visit https://privacyrights.org/consumer-guides/opt-out-resources-unwanted-junk-mail
Whenver possible go paperless with transactions anddocuments