Today I received two copies of the phone directory (yellow and white pages) in my post box (well next to it as it didn't fit). It's the same every year. They go immediately to my recyclable paper bin. I told the publisher that I wasn't interested because I only check their Internet version, but they keep sending them to me every year.
Imagine that millions of people in my situation that don't give a damn about a cumbersome paper version of the phone directory. That's a pure waste of paper, fuel (for the deliveries) and money.
I don't understand how this kind of nonsense is still happening in our increasingly environmentally conscious society.
I once ordered clothes from a website of a mail order company. In the following months they send me all sort of junk mail (promotional ads, but also big catalogues). I emailed them threatening never to order anything again from them if they kept sending me all this unsolicited mail. I explained that I had ordered from the Internet in the first place to avoid having a paper copy of their catalogue as I was environment conscious. The message got through and they stopped at once. But this isn't always the case.
I also received a "national survey" of the post office, a 10-page A4 format questionnaire for people who don't care about their privacy and have too much time to kill. I threw it away immediately too, as it wasn't compulsory. But they send me a "reminder" (specifying that it still wasn't obligatory), which I ignored all the same, then a second reminder, that also landed in the bin before opening the envelope. Oddly enough there was no way to submit the survey through the Internet, and no specified contact number or email where I could have asked told them to stop wasting their time and mine.
The worst waste of paper in the last few months was the election campaign. I got enough pamphlets from all parties in my post box to fill a whole rubbish bag. Some candidates send their leaflets twice. Sometime the delivery guy just dropped 3 or 4 identical leaflets in my post box, to get rid of his pack more quickly I suppose.
I wonder what is the point of wasting so much time and money with all these political pamphlets and posters in the street. There is absolutely no way that seeing the candidates' face and self-introduction is going to convince me to vote them. Actually, the only thing they achieve is annoying me. My natural reaction is therefore to make sure that I don't vote for any of the people who contributed to the world deforestation to satisfy their pride, and annoyed a whole country's population.
I have always voted for the same party since I was 18, and it's not a piece of paper that will change my convictions. But at least the campaigns tell me who I shouldn't vote for within the party of my choice. Ironically the green party isn't more eco-friendly than the others in this regard.
Imagine that millions of people in my situation that don't give a damn about a cumbersome paper version of the phone directory. That's a pure waste of paper, fuel (for the deliveries) and money.
I don't understand how this kind of nonsense is still happening in our increasingly environmentally conscious society.
I once ordered clothes from a website of a mail order company. In the following months they send me all sort of junk mail (promotional ads, but also big catalogues). I emailed them threatening never to order anything again from them if they kept sending me all this unsolicited mail. I explained that I had ordered from the Internet in the first place to avoid having a paper copy of their catalogue as I was environment conscious. The message got through and they stopped at once. But this isn't always the case.
I also received a "national survey" of the post office, a 10-page A4 format questionnaire for people who don't care about their privacy and have too much time to kill. I threw it away immediately too, as it wasn't compulsory. But they send me a "reminder" (specifying that it still wasn't obligatory), which I ignored all the same, then a second reminder, that also landed in the bin before opening the envelope. Oddly enough there was no way to submit the survey through the Internet, and no specified contact number or email where I could have asked told them to stop wasting their time and mine.
The worst waste of paper in the last few months was the election campaign. I got enough pamphlets from all parties in my post box to fill a whole rubbish bag. Some candidates send their leaflets twice. Sometime the delivery guy just dropped 3 or 4 identical leaflets in my post box, to get rid of his pack more quickly I suppose.
I wonder what is the point of wasting so much time and money with all these political pamphlets and posters in the street. There is absolutely no way that seeing the candidates' face and self-introduction is going to convince me to vote them. Actually, the only thing they achieve is annoying me. My natural reaction is therefore to make sure that I don't vote for any of the people who contributed to the world deforestation to satisfy their pride, and annoyed a whole country's population.
I have always voted for the same party since I was 18, and it's not a piece of paper that will change my convictions. But at least the campaigns tell me who I shouldn't vote for within the party of my choice. Ironically the green party isn't more eco-friendly than the others in this regard.