Why do I constantly get paper in the mail for environmental causes? Politicians that are reaching out based on their “green credentials”, organizations soliciting donations to help the environment and protect <insert thing here>, etc.
It’s ridiculous.
“Lets show everyone how much we care about the environment by using lots of chemicals and inks to print our message onto millions of dead tree pieces and then pay someone to take each of them and fly and truck them all over the country (world?) and then put them into little vans that get basically 4mpg and hand deliver each one to every persons door where they can read it themselves. I hope they don’t just throw it straight into the trash can!”
I know the system is already pumping a ton of other mail through the transportation systems and it can be argued that the effect of just these mailers alone is not much since the mail person is already driving to my home to give me other mail and whatever but that’s a shitty attitude. They shouldn’t have printed them at all. They shouldn’t be supporting the paper, ink, and transportation. Sure their individual contributions is low, but it’s all about supply and demand. Nothing will change as long as people are still buying a ton of paper to ship crappy mailers.