Re: [GreenYes] junk mail

["Roger Guttentag" <rgutten@concentric.net>]

Greetings:

My Dec. 2001 "Recycling in Cyberspace" column in Resource Recycling on
reducing holiday waste addressed the issue of junk mail reduction and
prevention as part of this topic and provided a number of good web resources
relating to it.  If you don't get or have access to Resource Recycling, then
go to http://www.resource-recycling.com and select the link to Industry
Links and then look for the links to my columns. This links archive for my
column, BTW, goes back to August 2001.

Roger M. Guttentag
610-584-8836
rgutten@concentric.net
Recycling in Cyberspace topic for March / April 2002 : E-waste

----- Original Message -----
From: TomT <TomT@mwes.com>
To: <greenyes@grrn.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 4:46 PM
Subject: [GreenYes] junk mail


> Gentlepeople,
> I am wondering about the junk mail I receive.
> I always take the window off, toss it in the garbage and
> recycle the rest.
> My question is whether it's worth the effort to remove the little
> window?  The little newsletter we receive quarterly in the mail regarding
> what we can and can not recycle says we can recycle envelopes.  What does
> that mean regarding the window?
> And since I'm rambling, I try and inform all places that I do
> business with or donate money to to not rent or sell my name.  But I
> constantly get junkmail from credit card companies.  For awhile I sent
> requests to remove my name from their list.  Apparently they haven't.  Is
> there anything I can do?
> What I've started to do is take their postage paid envelope and send
> them the rest of my junk mail.  While short-term satisfying, it's
> frustrating that they're wasting the resources to begin with and they're
> probably not recycling it when it goes back to them.
> Thoughts?  Comments?
> Thanks!
>
> Tommy
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