Junk Mail from Environmental Charities

Subject: Reply from NRDC RE: membership: a waste of paper!
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 10:08:47 -0400
From: "membership"
To: "AJ"

Dear Mr. ------,

Again, thank you for contacting NRDC. We have updated your record so you do
not receive any paper mail from us. Please be advised though, that your old
record may have already been selected for a mailing or publication before this
change was made. You can rest assured, however, that the change has been made.

[...]

Sincerely,
Katharine Houston
NRDC Membership and Public Education

-----Original Message-----
From: AJ
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 12:50 PM
To: membership
Subject: Re: Reply from NRDC RE: membership: a waste of paper!

[...] sending out a pile
of paper each time someone contributes is wrong. If NRDC
can not address this problem directly, it will lose me as a
member. I may even write an article critizing NRDC for the
practice.

For now, please remove my mailing address from your list
and refrain from sending me anything in the mail again.
[...]

--- membership wrote:
> Dear Mr. ------,
>
> Thank you for contacting NRDC. Before we removed you
> from our Membership database completely, I did want you
> to know that you do have the option to only receive email
> notifications from NRDC. Is this something you would
> prefer, or would you still like to end your Membership
> with NRDC. Please let us know your wishes and we will
> update your record immediately. Thank you for your past
> support of NRDC.
>
> Sincerely,
> Katharine Houston
> NRDC Membership and Public Education

In the U.S. we have lost 95 percent of our old growth forests.

Every year, the U.S. catalog industry mails some 19.5 billion catalogs, or 71 for every man, woman and child - producing and disposing 3.6 million tons of paper in 2000.

The pulp and paper industry is the third-largest industrial polluter in both Canada and the U.S., releasing more than 220 million pounds of toxic pollution into the air, ground and water each year.

Over 40 percent of the global industrial wood harvest is pulped for paper.

The U.S. has less than 5% of the world’s population, but consumes 30% of the world’s paper. Only 5% of America’s virgin forests remain, while 70% of the fiber consumed by the pulp and paper industry continues to be generated from virgin wood.