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We have a very real crisis on our hands! Planet earth’s delicate ecosystem is literally hanging in a critical balance. Hopefully we all know about global warming, and the immediate dangers it poses. Do you know the dangers imposed by "junk" mail to our planet? Do you realize the amount of needless destruction that junk mail causes to our great planet earth? Over to the right are a few statistics to help you realize the enormity of this issue!!

After you have had a few moments to read over the statistics, you should be able to see why this is such a problem! Ask yourself, what can we do to solve this growing problem? That is how this organization came about! Everyone wants to do their own “little part” to help "save the planet". Now there is something we can do about it!

Our staff here at globaljunkmailcrisis.org along with your help can make a very real difference in our human impact on the environment today!

If you would like to conserve trees, water, air and reduce global warming; in short the earth's entire ecosystem, then please read on...

Our Solution?

As a solution to this crisis, Northwest Recycling Outreach has come together to offer the community a service to eliminate the delivery of junk mail to our mail boxes. Thereby minimizing the amount of junk mail that a household receives by 80% to 95%.

We know how valuable your time is and we know potentially how much time it can take to research the various marketing organizations, catalog companies, credit bureaus, coupon mailers, magazine companies, insurance firms etc...that buy and sell our names for their distribution lists. We will contact them and instruct them to remove your name and the names of everyone in your household from their distribution lists.

For only $4.60 a year your household can be a part of the solution not the problem!

For $23.00 we will take care of all the hassle for you! This will eliminate your junk mail for five years. This time frame is due to the policies of these corporations. They have "do-not" mail lists. When a name is entered onto one of these lists, it is for a period of five years. After that five years is up your name goes back into the "list lottery" for distribution again. If you would like continued service after that time simply renew your service. We also offer free updates if you move.

This is one BIG step we can all take towards a solution to this problem.

We plant a tree for every subscription!

For your convenience and security,... at this time we are using google checkout. All you will need to do is click on the "buy now" button, complete your checkout then email us with the names of everyone in the household who no longer wish to receive junk mail along with the names of any specific catalogs that you would no longer like to receive.

Make a difference in our future.
Make a difference in our children's future!

The majority of household waste consists of unsolicited mail.
More than 4 million tons (105,000,000,000 (billion) pieces) of junk mail are produced yearly.
100 million trees are ground up each year for unsolicited mail.
Individually, between 40 to 167 pounds of junk mail are sent to every adult each year. Approximately 44% goes to a landfill unopened. (even when recycled)
42% of timber harvested nationwide ends up as pulpwood for paper.
It wastes 28 billion gallons of water for the production and disposal of junk mail every year.
It consumes more energy than 2.8 million cars yearly.
40% of the solid mass that makes up our landfills is paper and paperboard waste. By the year 2010, it is predicted to make up about 48%.
Each person will receive almost 560 pieces of junk mail this year.
The average person gets only 1.5 personal letters each week, compared to 10.8 pieces of junk mail.
$320 million of local taxes are used to dispose of unsolicited mail each year.
It costs $550 million yearly to transport junk mail.
If you cut your bulk mail for 5 years, you’ll conserve 1.7 trees, 700 gallons of water and prevent 460 pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the air.
If you take the 105 billion pieces of junk mail received by Americans every year and put them end-to-end, they would circle the Earth 240 times!
If you put them end-to-end into space, they would stretch to the Moon and back - five times!
If you assume the average piece of junk mail weighs 2 ounces (which is conservative, considering the weight of catalogs), not to even mention phone books, the junk mail Americans receive every year would weigh a total of 2.6 million tons a year -almost 3 times the weight of the Golden Gate bridge (which weighs 894,500 tons).
More than 100 million trees’ worth of bulk mail arrives in American mail boxes each year – that is the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months. (New AmericanDream calculation from Conservatree and U.S. Forest Service statistics)
In 2003, 5.4 million tons of catalogs and other direct mailings ended up in the U.S. municipal solid waste stream – enough to fill over 420,000 garbage trucks. Parked bumper to bumper these garbage trucks would extend from Atlanta to Albuquerque. Only 32% of this ad mail was recycled. (U.S. EPA.)

Northwest Recycling Outreach(NWRO) is an organization that believes one of the main contributing factors to the deterioration of our planet’s ecosystem is junk mail. Based on the statistics it should be easy to see that junk mail is in fact keeping our environment in a vicious cycle. From our trees, to our water, to our air, to the very soil we walk upon; every part is indeed connected to the greater whole. A holistic insight into our behavior reveals the fact that we are just now becoming aware that our planet is alive, and needs our help!