Junk Mail Totals 1999

We received 351.5 pounds of junk mail at our home office last year (1999). We had a the question a few weeks ago from Joyce wondering how many trees that equaled. From the research we've done:

351.5 pounds of junk mail equals approximately

3 trees

1238 gallons of water

82.4 gallons of oil

725.7 kilowatt hours of electricity

104 pounds of air pollution particulates

and will take

.52 cubic yards of landfill space if not recycled.

This does not include colored inks, postal and transportation costs, (gasoline, oil, emissions.)

What's sad is that we did not request any of it and it is not read. We do recycle and use as much as possible but would rather not have to receive mail we don't want.