Can we talk about how much junk mail is actually trees? I did the math and got sad.
I was cleaning out my mailbox last Saturday and counted 14 flyers and catalogs from just one week. That got me wondering, so I looked up how much paper that really is. Turns out the average American household gets about 800 pieces of junk mail per year, and that uses over 100 million trees annually in the US alone. I found that stat on a conservation group's website, and it kinda hit me hard. I mean, I recycle most of it, but still, that's a lot of trees for stuff I toss in five seconds. Has anyone else ever looked into how much of that paper is actually recyclable or if there's a way to stop it at the source?