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  Friday, August 15, 2008

Junk Mail's Bigfoot Carbon Footprint

A ForestEthics report claims that "destroying forests to make paper for junk mail releases as much greenhouse gas pollution as 9 million cars. Another way to look at it: Junk mail produces as much pollution as seven U.S. states combined, or as much as heating 13 million homes each winter." via the daily green.


Posted by Dave    Blog Tag: News

1 Comments:

At 8/15/2008 9:41 PM, Blogger The Real Mother Hen said...

Without junk mail companies paying for the postage and keeping the postmen busy, the economy will suffer - oh as if it hasn't been, even with junk mail business flourishing like never before :)

 

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