STATISTICS:

1. The majority of household waste consists of unsolicited mail.
2. Individually, between 40 and 167 pounds of junk mail are sent to every adult each year. Approximately 44% goes to a landfill unopened.
3. More than 4 million tons (105,000,000,000 (billion) pieces) of junk mail are produced  yearly.
4. Each person will receive almost 560 pieces of junk mail this year.
5. The average person gets only 1.5 personal letters each week, compared to 10.8 pieces of junk mail. 
6. More than 100 million trees’ worth of bulk mail arrives in American mail boxes each year –that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months. (New AmericanDream calculation from Conservatree and U.S. Forest Service statistics) 
7. 42% of timber harvested nationwide ends up as pulpwood for paper.
8. 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%.
9.  The production and disposal of junk mail consumes more energy than 2.8 million         cars.

10. It wastes 28 billion gallons of water for paper processing each year.
11. 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.

12. More than half of unsolicited mail is discarded unread or unopened; the response rate is less than 2%.
13. Americans pay 370,000,000 every year to dispose of junk mail that does not get recycled.
14. It is difficult to recycle, as the inks have high concentrations of heavy metals.
15. It costs $550 million yearly to transport junk mail.
16. Scarce landfill space disfigures rural areas and pollutes ground water.
17. Lists of names and addresses used in bulk mailings are in mass data-collection networks, compiled from phone books, warranty cards, and charity donations (to name a few).
18. Your name is typically worth 3 to 20 cents each time it is sold.
19. Fifty-five percent of Americans “dislike” and 26% “despise” getting internet disks in the   mail, while 1.9% “really appreciate” them. (June 2002 Opinion Research Corporation International Poll commissioned by New American Dream)
20. U.S. companies sent 35 billion pieces of direct postal mail in 1980, 64 billion pieces in 1990, and 90 billion pieces in 2000. (U.S. Postal Service)
21.  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.)
22. 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!

23. 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).

 Citizens have the right to getting only the mail they want. Globaljunkmail.org is an organization that can empower people to regain control of their “little part” of life here on “planet earth”. Providing our customers with a system and the support needed to get only the mail they want, and need. “Just say no” to your part in this global crisis.


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