Kicking the junk mail habit

You compost. You recycle. You bring your own bag to the grocery store.

Now it’s time to get to work on another environmental menace: junk mail.

Most attention in recent years has been focused on keeping spam out of computer inboxes. But unsolicited “snail mail”—coupons, credit offers, national advertising,
catalogs—has remained an annoying fact of life.

And, unlike spam, this kind of junk mail can end up in a landfill. To help you get out from under the onslaught, the county Department of Public Works has pulled together a page full of useful addresses and contacts. Just think of it as a spam filter for your mailbox.