Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Paper for Thought




Church of the Customer received 21.5 lbs of junk mail during the month of December.

In the comments, Graham does some math for us: 21.5 lbs of paper times an estimated 110 million U.S. households is approximately 1,056,000 tons of paper. If 8 trees are used to create a ton of typical (unrecycled) catalog paper, and 21.5 pounds is the average weight of unsolicited catalogs, then some 132,000 trees were used to send people junkmail during a one-month period.

1 comment:

jm said...

WOW that's a lot of junk mail, hahaha
this is what I do with my junk mail