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Junk Mail Statistics

Junk mail affects our ecosystem, our personal security, our landfills, our money and our time. Some of the more staggering statistics about junk mail include:

• More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail; that’s the equivalent of clear-cutting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.
• More than 62 billion pieces (four million tons) of junk mail are produced each year.
• A response rate of less than 0.25% is considered acceptable for the 500 million U.S. credit card solicitations that are mailed monthly.
• The average American receives 18 pieces of junk mail for every one piece of personal correspondence.
• Lists of names and addresses used in bulk mailings reside in mass data-collection networks. Your name is typically worth 3 to 20 cents each time it is sold.
• State and local governments and their citizens spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year to collect and dispose of bulk mail that does not get recycled.
• The energy used to produce and dispose of junk mail is equivalent to the energy required to operate 2.8 million cars.
• About 28 billion gallons of water are wasted to produce and recycle junk mail each year.
• The average American wastes about 70 hours a year dealing with junk mail.
• 44% of all junk mail goes into the landfills unopened.
• Junk mail accounts for the majority of an average household’s paper waste.
• 40% of the solid mass that makes up our landfills is paper and paperboard waste.
• Transporting junk mail costs $550 million a year.

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