Earth day was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, a longtime conservationist, as a national environmental teach-in. A day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation of the environment and encourage its protection, it recently celebrated its 40th birthday.
To honor its worthy mission, I would like to recommend Catalog Choice, a free service that lets you reduce unwanted mail and choose how you hear from brands. Catalog Choice was started by three environmental groups – the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Wildlife Federation and the Ecology Center, which runs Berkeley, California’s curbside recycling program – with the goal of reducing the negative impact on our natural resources caused by the mass mailing of catalogs.
Catalog Choice contacts companies on your behalf and lets them know that you want to cut back on the frequency with which to receive catalogs or stop the mailings completely. Please keep in mind that it can take up to 12 weeks for the changes to take effect. To show that Catalog Choice has nothing against free enterprise, you can find links on its website to all the catalog merchants, which allows you to shop online after asking that your name be taken off a company’s mailing list.So, if you have no need for paper phonebooks, want to opt out of receiving paper catalogs, stop preapproved credit offers at home or unwanted mail at the office, register with Catalog Choice now.