Ironwolf

I’m not as badly off as some. I only throw away about 8-10 catalogs a week that arrive at my office. Over a year, that’s around 500 catalogs. Now scale that to the entire U.S.: Americans are printing, distributing, and throwing away (mostly unused) about 19 billion catalogs each year.

53 million trees per year.

3.6 million tons of paper per year.

Enough energy to power 1.2 million homes per year.

Annual emissions equal to 2 million cars on the road per year.

81,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools of waste water per year.

For catalogs.

How many catalogs do you receive that you never look at, don’t really want, and aren’t even sure about how to go about no longer receiving them?

Catalog Choice is a new, free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Use it to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural resources.

Catalog Choice is a sponsored project of the Ecology Center. It is endorsed by the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Take back your mailbox! Catalog Choice.

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