How to Reduce Your Junk Mail — Even Better Than Recycling It

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Photo from the Darien Recycling Center account on Facebook

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Another Quick Recycling Tip:

Junk Mail

Photo from the Darien Recycling Center account on Facebook

Sure, junk mail can be recycled in single stream, but it takes tremendous amounts of natural resources to produce, distribute, and recycle the estimated 100 billion pieces mailed to U.S. households each year.

A better option is to reduce the quantity entering your mailbox. Lots of websites make it easy to do this — a good one to try is catalogchoice.org.

— Darienite.com’s Quick Recycling Tips come from the Darien Recycling Center’s account on Facebook.

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