Two examples.
Here in Australia, McDonalds are responsible for 84 million take away cups going into landfill every year.
Approximately 8.2 billion articles of unaddressed junk mail are produced and delivered to Australian households every year. As well as 650 million articles of addressed promotional mail.
This equates to approximately a quarter of a million tonnes of paper every year. 2.6 million trees are cut down each year to enable this junk mail to be delivered to our mailboxes. 80% of which goes straight into the bin unread.
Currently the onus is on the householder to stop the delivery of junk mail into their letter boxes by displaying “No Junk Mail Signage” most of which are ignored by the person making the delivery. Once again, the onus is on the household to report to the authorities the unlawful delivery of junk mail into signed letterboxes.
Businesses would lobby politicians if junk mail was to be made illegal. Suppression of trade, higher costs to businesses to only deliver “addressed mail”. The printing industry would be “up in arms” as they generate huge profits from producing the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of junk mail destined for landfill.
No doubt, the weak politicians will listen to industry and not make physical junk mail illegal.
Bretrick’s rant for the day.
