FACT: Junk mail is by far the largest source of involuntary household waste. FACT: 40% of all waste in U.S. landfills is paper waste. FACT: The United States Postal Service delivers over 50 lbs of junk mail to the average household every year, most of it unwanted by the recipient. FACT: Mailers pay a small fraction of the rate per piece that you pay to mail a letter. In short, taxpayers subsidize the junk mailers trashing our trees, mailboxes and landfills.

MORE FACTS: Almost half of all timber used in the U.S. is used to make paper. More than 100 million trees are cut down yearly to produce junk mail. Most is unwanted and trashed unrecycled. Manufacturing and shipping junk mail emits more greenhouse gas than 9 million cars. Many of the inks used in junk mail contain toxic metals; leaching into groundwater is inevitable. Further information is available at http://www.greeneducationnetwork.com/article/petition-for-law-to-stop-unwanted-junk-mail

CONSIDER: A federal law was enacted giving citizens the right and means to ban unwanted telemarketing calls to their homes, with good but far less compelling justification. This popular law is known as the Do Not Call Registry (DNC). Surely we have right to refuse the waste of our time and taxes on the destruction of our environment!
 
I THEREFORE PETITION the Congress and President of the United States, State Legislatures, and Governments throughout the world to enact legislation enabling citizens to refuse receipt of junk mail. Such a law should take the form of a Do Not Mail Registry(DNM).