We are drowning in junk mail. If the junk mail industry isn't the world's (or at least the US') biggest contributor to deforestation and waste, it must be pretty close. A few years ago, while doing research on a case, I discovered that junk mail constitutes about FORTY PERCENT of American household waste; and the number must have gone up since then. Apart from the trees that are killed for this nonsense, think about all the energy expended in transporting the garbage, distributing it, then disposing of it.
The junk mail industry is a MAJOR contributor to deforestation, pollution, and energy waste. So why are activists so indifferent towards it? Contrary to popular opinion, the First Amendment doesn't go so far as to trump all conflicting interests. Yet, chop an acre of trees for construction timber, and you are an enemy of the environment. Waste a truckload of paper on stupid fliers that no one wants -- we act like it isn't happening.
2007-06-29
05:59:14
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