Save Trees! Stop those snail-mail catalogs

http://clarkhoward.com/shownotes/index.html

"On a related note, there's another environmental nuisance that you can now take charge of for free. Clark's mailbox around the holiday season has stacks and stacks of mail-order catalogs, most of them addressed to his wife. Now he's learned about CatalogChoice.org, a new website where you can sign up for a "do not catalog" list. But you probably won't be able to stop the influx of catalogs this holiday season because it takes about 10 weeks to process your request. Previously Clark only knew of a paid site where you could get your name taken off catalog mailing lists. CatalogChoice.org is absolutely free. Americans receive 19 billion catalogs every year. If you're an environmentalist, that's 53 million trees per year. The USPS also makes huge revenue delivering all these catalogs, so they'll be hurting for certain if everyone were to remove their names from the catalog lists."

to get rid of mail-order catalogues and junk mail in general. I get so much shit I'm pretty sure i could power a space shuttle with the amount of energy used to produce, print, process, and deliver the junk.

Unfortunately, Clark Howard, as a Cox employee, has to suck up to the likes of Neal Boortz and he seems to be pro-privatization on healthcare and Social Security.

I only mention this in passing; I'm interested in this catalogchoice.org site. Have you registered? Did it work for you?

I did register. It will take about 10 weeks? A long time back, he did provide a link that stopped all of those credit card applications, and that did work wonderfully.

I don't agree with Clark's views on lots of things, but I read his show notes every day, because he does provide alot of interesting consumer information.

Those Walter Drake catalogs are the bees knees.

almost a tree's worth of this crap each week.

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Sorry, but the type of paper used in these mailers is called "super glossy". The pulp used to make the base stock is generally made from re-cycled pulp, to which is added a large percent of clay filler. It is then run through a machine called a "Super Calender", which uses large steel rollers and high pressure to produce the final product.

Now the type of paper that has the highest percent of virgin fiber from fresh killed trees, is that used to make paper for PC printers.

And I don't need a link, I was in the paper industry for many a year.

This information needs to be made available to all DUers. Cancelling your catalogs is an effective step toward preventing energy and environmental waste and enhancing your own life. I recently spent a good deal of time on the phone calling the customer service departments of all the catalogs I was getting (hadn't heard about this website yet). I finally managed to get the flood down to a trickle and will soon have it cut off completely. In addition to saving trees, this move has cut down on waste in my personal life -- first of time spent in reading catalogs and second in money spent on stuff I don't need. The task should be easier with this website. Thanks again for posting.

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Peace,

freefall