- More than 41.5 billion pieces of mail advertisements were produced and distributed in the U.S in 2005, according to the Worldwatch Institute.
- It took more than 100 million trees to create all this bulk mail – that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.
- Even though most junk mail can be recycled, 5.8 million tons of catalogs and other direct mailings ended up as trash in landfills or incinerators in 2005.
- And all this comes at a cost to our climate as well: The production and disposal of junk mail consumes more energy than 3 million cars.
- Each of us will spend an average of eight months of our lives dealing with junk mail.
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