We all deal with it: Credit card offers, catalogs, flyers and the like find their way into our mailboxes, only to be chucked under a heavy sigh. Complain, next day, repeat.

Why are we wasting our precious time on something that national polls say 80% to 90% of us didn't ask for and don't want?

Eco-Cycle is footing the bill to help Boulder County residents and businesses Stop Junk Mail for GOOD. This premium service - which comes from the best mail preference service in the nation, Catalog Choice - normally costs $20. Help cover the cost of this service with a donation of $10 or more.

Our Stop Junk Mail for GOOD service not only stops unsolicited mail and phone books, it also removes personal information from third party marketing lists, protecting your identity and your privacy.

Catalog Choice's mail preference service is the only one in the nation that:

- Offers the most comprehensive service available for consumers to get off marketing lists for junk mail, catalogs and phone books.

- Stands up for your rights as a consumer and fights to make sure you have a choice in what mail you receive.

- Holds companies to their word in honoring your opt-out request and files complaints directly with the FTC about those who don't.

- Protects your privacy by masking your email address when you are submitting opt-out requests so your junk mail doesn't become your junk email.

- Tracks which companies you've contacted and whether they responded so you don't have to remember which companies you've already called and when.Makes sure every company has an opt-out since there is no rule that says they must.

- Our goal is to sign up 5,000 Boulder County residents and businesses in the next year.

- Get your friends and family off stop junk mail by "Liking" this page, tweeting about it, or sharing this link —www.ecocycle.org/junkmail— via email and through your social networks.

- Did you know junk mail comes at a huge cost to the environment? Every day in the forest of northern Canada, majestic trees are cut to stumps—at a rate of 2 acres a minute, 24 hours a day—to produce junk mail and other paper products.

- These trees are not only critical in combating climate change by absorbing carbon from the earth's atmosphere; they are also home to native peoples who watch helplessly as they lose everything they know to corporate paper company interests.



More Junk Mail Facts:

- More than 109 billion pieces of unsolicited mail were produced and distributed in the U.S. in 2009.

- The production and disposal of junk mail consumes more energy than 3 million cars.

- It took more than 100 million trees to create all this bulk mail —that's the equivalent of deforesting all of Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.

Read more about junk mail and our Stop Junk Mail for GOOD service atwww.ecocycle.org/junkmail.

Don't live in Boulder County? You can still sign up to get off junk mail! Learn more about Catalog Choice's services at www.catalogchoice.org.

About us: Eco-Cycle was founded in 1976 by everyday residents who had a passionate belief in conserving our natural resources. These volunteers made Boulder one of the first 20 communities in the U.S. to offer curbside recycling.Today, our mission is to identify, explore and demonstrate the emerging frontiers of sustainable resource management through the concepts and practices of Zero Waste. Eco-Cycle runs the Boulder County Recycling Center and the CHaRM Facility (Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials), and has a plethora of resources to help business, individuals, event planners, and schools do their part for the planet. We are a 501(c)3non-profit organization. Learn more about us at www.ecocycle.org.