How to stop the glut of junk mail

Each year, the junk mail industry spends more than $50 billion on the production and distribution of more than 40 billion pieces of junk mail. In the process, more than 100 million trees are destroyed, with most mailed advertising material ending up in incinerators, garbage dumps and recycling centers. Want to do something about it? Here are ten easy steps from ecocycle.org that you can follow to put the kibosh on unwanted junk mail and lighten the load on your mailbox.