Save the Environment with Catalog Choice

Catalog Choice, sponsored by the Ecology Center and funded or endorsed by various environment-friendly groups, is a free Web service that allows you to opt-out of unwanted catalogs/mailings that you receive. This service is provided in hopes that it will reduce mailbox clutter and save the environment at the same time.

The Catalog Choice Website states that the current statistic of production and discarded paper catalogs adds up to more than 19 billion paper catalogs per year! I actually receive several catalogs per week that I’ll briefly flip through and eventually throw away. Many of the catalogs, I have no clue why they are even being sent to me. Many companies send out catalogs by profiling demographic areas, in hopes that indivduals will place an order.

The Catalog Choice Website also has a list of astonishing enviromental facts that I encourage everyone to read. This list may open your eyes to the severity of the environmental changes that are occuring as a result of the way that we live on this Earth.

Joining Catalog Choice is simple. Users simply sign up by providing their current home address (where you are receiving unwanted catalogs). Once the sign-up page is complete, you can begin searching for catalogs that you no longer wish to receive. You find the catalog and decline its receival. You can invite friends to do the same and decrease the number of trees destroyed even more.

The only slight downfall is that you have to know the names of the catalogs that you no longer want to receive. I know that when I receive a catalog that I don’t want, I usually throw it away immediately and I don’t recall their names. I am assuming that it’s best to keep a stack of unwanted mail until you have the chance to look them up and decline them in Catalog Choice.

Catalog Choice is a nice service and it’s completely free. It is relatively easy and it is sure to make you feel good when you do your part in saving our Earth.