We may all get annoyed with the amount of spam and unwanted emails that end up in our inbox, but
paper junk mail will not cease anytime soon. Credit card offers touting free airline miles and goodies comprise a big chunk of all that junk, and the amount of those mailings
doubled from 2009 to last year. Slice and dice the data as you wish, but those 2.82 billion credit card solicitations consume their share of trees, energy, and landfill space. Wireless carriers contribute their fair share to the snail mail, by either offering to link up that additional family member or an “offer” to extend your contract by another two years with the latest smartphone.
To that end, the non-profit
ForestEthics ranked
twelve financial and communications firms after gauging how their operations—especially those pesky mailers—affected forests.
The
results are listed in ForestEthics 2011 “
Green Grades Report Card,” and they reveal very little grade inflation. Two firms were given “F’s” for behaving like truant kids and not responding to Forest Ethics’ survey. The only company that earned an “A” was
Sprint (headquarters of which are shown above). Read why in my latest
Triple Pundit article.
