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Two quick questions for you ...

1) Would you like to help the environment by having someone plant five to ten trees on your behalf?

2 Would you like to stop receiving 90 percent of the junk mail you receive?

If you answered Yes to both of those questions, you should definitely look into GreenDimes.com, an eco-conscious company that was formed to help put an end to the resource-wasting practice of sending worthless paper mail advertisements to homes across the country. For only $20, GreenMail.com will remove your name from mailing lists and make sure, through a monthly monitoring system, that the pile of junk mail you receive is reduced by 90 percent. Plus, as stated before, by signing up to GreenDimes.com, they will plant five to ten trees on your behalf.

Also, in case you don't feel like shelling out the $20 bucks right now, you can also join GreenDimes.com for free and still help remove your name from junk mailing lists.

And lastly, just to put the true wastefulness of junk mail into perspective, here are some facts sourced from the Native Forest Network:

• The average person gets only 1.5 personal letters each week, compared to 10.8 pieces of junk mail.
  
• Each person will receive almost 560 pieces of junk mail this year.
  
• That's 4.5 million tons of junk mail produced each year!
  
• 44% of all junk mail is thrown in the trash, unopened and unread.
  
• Approximately 40% of the solid mass that makes up our landfills is paper and paperboard waste.
  
• By the year 2010, it is predicted to make up about 48%.
  
• 100 million trees are ground up each year to produce junk mail.
  
• Lists of names and addresses used in bulk mailings are in mass data-collection networks, compiled from phone books, warranty cards, and charity donations (to name a few).
  
• Your name is typically worth 3 to 20 cents each time it is sold.

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