Paper Bags and Landfills
November 28th, 2007 by Bill ColleySorry to keep playing the Grinch, folks, but these websites more than back my claims about paper bags in landfills:
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http://www.reusablebags.com/facts.php?id=7
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http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Portraits/paper_not_plastic
December 2nd, 2007 at 11:47 am
Paper bags are not the only paper unnecessarily clogging our landfills. Newspaper gets tossed in them, too, because some folks are too lazy to recycle. The publishers, themselves, do not help this matter. I am receiving “Delmarva Crossroads” published by the News Journal. I did not
ask for this paper - of mostly ads with little news - and neither do I want it. It is just one more piece of junk which clogs my mailbox, daily. I contacted the NJ about this and was told my address would be removed from their mailing list. Since then I have received two more copies, all of which I will have to recycle along with all the other unwanted junk mail.
I contacted the post office about this, some time ago but they have to stuff our mailboxes with it because it was sent out, even though it was addressed to “Resident” or “Current Resident” and not to me, personally. This latest unwanted publication is actually addressed to me. I don’t know where they got my name and address or why they thought I would want it.
We need a law to stop these publications unless we ask for them. How many trees are cut down to make this garbage? How much air is polluted by the machinery to cut down the trees and transport them to the paper mills? When is America going to get serious about pollution and overflowing landfills? We can’t burn leaves but idiots can thrust their unwanted garbage into our mailboxes leaving us with no alternative but to burn it, bury it, or recycle it. I choose to recycle but it is still an additional burden on me which I cannot seem to get stopped.