Where to start:
- Sign up at the Do Not Mail List.
- Tell credit cards not to send more offers.
- Ask companies to stop sending catalogs.
- Enlist the service Green Dimes to help stop your junk mail (or get more help for a fee).
- Pay the nonprofit 41 Pounds to stop your junk mail for five years.
More about: Stopping junk mail
Each of us spends about 70 hours each year dealing with junk mail. Junk mail destroys 100 million trees every year, and some of the junk paper can't be recycled because of toxic inks. When you stop junk mail at the source, you're saving time and trees.
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Five ways to stop junk mail
Summer’s afterglow is barely gone, but retailers are poised to unleash their steady onslaught of holiday catalogs. If you don’t want your mailbox to bulge with glossy catalogs and other annoying junk mail, read on. 1. ...
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Banish junk mail
Sick of all the junk mail piling up in your mailbox and home? While it's virtually impossible to stop all unwanted mail and catalogs, there are ways to seriously curtail the onslaught.
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Junk your junk mail
Nine tips for helping to save some of the 100 million trees chopped down annually to produce junk mail in the United States.
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Green junk mail? Get real
Now the New York Times reports that direct-marketing companies think they can make junk mail "greener." As if!
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Stop leaving a paper trail
Get off junk mail lists and pay bills online to save some trees (and save time too).
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Turning the tables on junk-mailers
A wicked little idea for disposing of unwanted credit card junk mail.
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Catalog Choice
We're inundated with junk mail. Catalog Choice says: Stop the madness!
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