Total Waste of Time- Random Nothings

Starting today I will be looking at grad-student-friendly ways to be green.

Step one: Stop receiving Junk Mail.
Cost: Free
Cost of inaction: 100 million trees are ground up each year to produce junk mail.

How to:

• You could go to Green Dimes and for $20/ year they remove you from all direct marketing services. No Junk mail and for every new account they plant 5 trees.

Or the free way, it takes longer, but just as effective.

• Reduce the number of catalog you get- Go to Catalogue Choice and remove yourself from all the catalogs you do not want to receive. Sadly you have to do it for each catalog and can’t just opt out of all in one click. But it’s free.
• Credit Card offers: Call 1-888-5 OPT OUT (or 1-888-567-8688) 24 hours a day and opt out of all credit card offers. You will need your name, address for the last two years and social security number. OR online at OptOut
• Remove yourself from list of Direct Marketing association- here
  
• Sign the petition to stop junk mail- here.

If you still get junk email, here are a few ideas:

• Use as scrap paper
• Recycle
• Make your own recycled paper. These directions make it sound and look super easy.