Click Here!Junk Mail Inhibiting Our Health and Wellness
Author: John
There are many things in life that can intrude on your peace of mind and stress you out. Any stress over time can pile up and adversely affect your health and wellness. Somethings are major ,some are minor, some are just annoying and some are life altering. A minor but very annoying aspect of life is junk mail.The average American adult receives about 41 pounds of junk mail a year, even though, as Newsweek reports, polls show that 89 percent of us prefer not to receive direct-marketing mail; 44 percent of it is never opened. Opposition from the US Postal Service and the Direct Marketing Association has so far helped defeat passage of any Do Not Mail legislative relief in 19 states.
Low-cost initiatives like 41 Pounds.org ($41 for five years includes a $15 eco-cause donation) and StopTheJunkMail.com ($20 a year) are coming to citizens’ rescue with services that solve 80 to 95 percent of the problem for us. Do-it-yourself types can also make it happen using how-to tips courtesy of The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse at PrivacyRights.org/fs/fs4-junk.htm, with an assist from OptOutPrescreen.com and CatalogChoice.org.
Nationwide annual benefits of getting out from under junk mail include: preventing production of greenhouse gases equal to the emissions of 9 million cars; destruction of the 100 million trees and use of 28 million gallons of freshwater it takes to produce 4 million tons of junk mail; $550 million in transportation costs; paper waste comprising 40 percent of the landfill load; and $320 million in local taxes spent on junk mail disposal. Not to mention the estimated 350 hours each household spends sorting and shredding it to protect against identity theft and fraud.
For more tips, visit BigGreenPurse.com and search”control catalog overload.”
Reprinted from Natural Awakenings October 2009
Another inventive way to deal with junk mail especially in winter is to turn it into a low cost heat source. A pile of junk mail in your home is not a pretty sight. If you live far away from a recycling center or just want to get rid of all your junk mail quickly, a junk mail fire log may be the answer to your junk mail problem. Follow these tips to learn how to make one and use it as an alternative heat source.
Things You’ll Need:
- Junk mail
- String
- Cardboard toilet roll
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Step 1
Collect junk mail. Newspapers, paper shreddings, thin cardboard, wrapping paper and other assorted paper scraps may be used to make your log as long as the material does not contain plastic or other special coatings that would emit toxic fumes when burned.
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Step 2
Get an empty, cardboard toilet tissue roll.
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Step 3
Lay the longest piece of newspaper or junk mail on a flat surface in front of you. Position it so that the shortest side faces in your direction.
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Step 4
Place the toilet tissue roll along the short edge of the newspaper or long junk mail article. Roll it once around the toilet tissue roll so that no part of the roll’s cardboard is exposed.
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Step 5
Add more pieces of junk mail to the tissue roll, overlapping the first piece. Roll the cardboard roll over the junk mail until the pieces of junk mail aren’t exposed. Keep adding more junk mail under the cardboard roll and rolling it over the junk mail until you arrive at a hefty log of junk mail.
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Step 6
Tie the roll tightly using a piece of string.
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Step 7
Toss your log into your fireplace and light it when you need an extra heat source.
Reprinted from http://www.ehow.com/how_4454260_make-junk-mail-fire-log.html
One last note, if you are shredding your mail and sensitive material and you shred it very fine, then you can take those shreddings and use them as mulch for your plants. They will help your plants retain moisture, provide some nutrients when they (shreddings) rot and won’t increase our landfill load unnecessarily. (Just make sure that the shred is fine enough that it can not be reassembled.
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Tags: health and wellness, holistic wellness, men over 50, mind health, women over 50
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