Environment

Environmental New Year's Resolution #1

by Barbara Mathieson | December 23, 2008 at 03:29 pm

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Do you, or someone you know, absolutely hate to recycle? Do you find it a hassle? Then reduce the amount of paper you receive in 2009.

Last year, I resolved to stop delivery of the daily newspaper. I was addicted to drinking coffee and reading the newspaper in the morning to jump start my day. I replaced the newspaper with a book, borrowed from the library. Soon, I found that I had less paper to recycle. Although I did not mind taking my papers each week to the recycling drop off center, I appreciated reducing my trips there when I stopped home delivery of the newspaper.

Over the past two years, I've stopped most catalogs coming to my mailbox. I receive email alerts from catalogers from whom I purchase regularly. Then I can visit their websites to see the latest offerings.

Lately, I have discovered that associations who send newsletters in the mail have offered me the option to go paperless. Signing up for email newsletters has decreased what I take to the recycling drop off center even more this year.

I also opted out of receiving endless credit card offers in the mail this year. I was receiving at least one or two daily. Now I seldom receive offers for new credit cards. I did not use them anyway. Often plastic fake cards were included in the direct mail pieces.

Instead of recycling more paper in 2009, just reduce the amount of paper in your home. Make it your goal to recycle less by collecting less.

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amyjudd

at 16:34 on December 23rd, 2008

What a good idea! I don't know how to stop credit card applications to my house as they just seem to keep coming. How do you do that?

Yorktown Road

at 11:29 on January 1st, 2009

Last year, I went online each day and cancelled the catalogs that inundated our home during the holidays. It really made a difference until Thanksgiving rolled around and more catalogs started arriving. Are these all new? New names, new companies? The stack in the image is what arrived on one day.

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poodly

at 20:40 on January 1st, 2009

The red on the brown image is a free catalogue in the letterbox of an inner city apartment. The subtext is about how wonderfully cosmopolitan and fashionable Adelaide is.

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Saving Resources NOW

at 23:23 on January 5th, 2009

In Australia there are new ways of seeing the best offers without receiving the estimated 40kg of junk mail delivered by the likes of Salmat and PMP

These include

Research has shown that more than 75% of people who receive Junk Mail bin it without even looking at it

The only problem is which 1 out of 4 look at it?

As the costs of printing continue to escalate, along with the costs of distribution, the internet will become more effective as consumers will research what, when and where they are looking to buy