A new Web site aims to reduce headaches, cut back on clutter, and help out the environment by allowing people to opt out of receiving catalogs in the mail. Catalog Choice lets us decline to receive many of the unsolicited catalogs that appear in our mailboxes.
The not-for-profit website promises to cut off the mailings at the source by contacting the senders on our behalf. Registrants of Catalog Choice provide their contact information, then search through the site’s database of catalogs and opt out of each one they currently receive. If the catalogs continue to arrive, users are encouraged to report the infraction so that Catalog Choice may follow up with the company.
Catalog Choice’s Environmental Facts page states that over 8 million trees are consumed each year for the production of catalogs, and cites the mailings as a contributor to global warming, air, and water pollution.
Link via TechCrunch.
