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Originally posted by Night Star
What about all the paperwork that has to be in two languages? An instruction book is twice as thick as it needs to be. I can't tell you how many times when recieving important papers in the mail, one entire page is just for the sole purpose of saying that if you need the information in spanish...blah blah blah.
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Originally posted by maria_stardust
You're absolutely right in the fact that the vast majority of mail the average American receives are nothing more than marketing and advertising pieces. I cannot even begin to fathom the overall impact this must have on our environment in terms of resources used and landfills overflowing as a result of this type of marketing vehicle.
Originally posted by urwatu8
reply to post by letthereaderunderstand
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Beg to differ. Grinding trees into paper is good for the environment. Left to their own devises trees get old and dry and either burn or rot - in either case they add deadly carbon to the atmosphere.
By turning pulp into paper we give humanity a chance to control where that carbon ends up. Turn it into books and put them on library shelves where they will never again bother most Americans. Or, turn it into paper circulars carried by hard working postal people to your door. Then carried away by hard working sanitation persons and then buried under ground where it will wait for thousands of years until some archeologist (possibly Gray) will dig it up and put it in a museum – again far removed from the presence of the illiterate.
Thank your lucky stars we are protected by diligent lumberman
Originally posted by LiquidLight
reply to post by urwatu8
I can't tell if you're being satirical or not. On the off chance that you're not, I'll say this: WTF? Cutting down trees HELPS the environment? I guarantee that tree removes more carbon-dioxide from the environment in its lifetime than it releases when it dies. Carbon-dioxide that gets converted into oxygen for all of us to breathe. Or do you not like breathing? To each his own, I suppose.
[edit on 11/21/2009 by LiquidLight]
Originally posted by calcoastseeker
reply to post by urwatu8
You are smoking something.
Do you have any idea how many tons of this crap a postman has to lug around each year.
The majority of letter carriers that go out on disability are from bad backs.
They have to put on extra people just to haul it around.
The biggest waste of people and resources I have ever seen.
You are so misinformed it is pathetic.
Originally posted by ziggy1706
I wonder where the paper an cardboard goes too though, i mean, the only real concept i could come up with, is toilet paper made of recycled material.. but hey! i feel and like to think, im doing my part, so so many tres wont be cut down! they make our oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide....why should they suffer! ya know
Originally posted by ziggy1706
I dunno lethereader..as far as i know nad was tought, oxygen comes from trees* unless thie wa some science news i missed out on.