Knock That Junk Off
New anti-junk-mail service stops unwanted catalogs for free
Posted at 8:47 AM on 18 Oct 2007
A new service set up by the Natural Resources Defense Council, National Wildlife Federation, and the Ecology Center called Catalog Choice can put a stop to all those unwanted catalogs clogging your mailbox. Since its debut last week, some 20,000 people have signed up for the service, already halting over 50,000 unwanted catalogs. That's a small fraction of the 19 billion catalogs mailed in the U.S. each year (made out of 53 million trees), but it's a start. Did we mention it's free?sources: Boston Herald, The New York Times
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