I'm so totally excited. I am holding in my hand two "No Flier" signs.
I know it won't seem like a big thing to my non- Brooklyn readers, but anyone who lives here can probably relate. Theoretically, by posting one of the signs above, I should no longer be inundated by useless paper.
You have no idea how hyped I am. They are going up on my front gate this week-end.
I will have to refrain myself from peeking out the front window and yelling at the first person to stick a flier through the gate...
***Update: I am getting a lot of emails asking where these signs can be bought. I just asked Mr. Pardon Me who picked them up yesterday. Tony's Harware on Smith Street, one block away from the Met Food Supermarket, sells them 2 for $5
on behalf of the Boerum Hill Association
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Another option are these guys: www.nojunkmailsigns.com
I've used them both in Australia and the UK and they work wonders. You can also buy them directly on eBay. They're not stickers as such but more of a sign so they'll last and are weather resident.
Hey, that's great! I just checked out the site and here are some of the facts on fliers. Pretty sobering.
Fast Facts
* Reducing 1 tonne of junk mail saves 17 trees, 2.3 cubic metres if landfill, 31,400 litres of water, 4,200 kilowatt hours of energy, 1,600 litres of oil and avoids 26 kilograms of air pollutants. (Source: Environment Agency, UK)
* The book 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth (Earthworks) featured stopping junk mail as its number 1 recommendation.
* 21 billion junk mail items are distributed to UK households on average every year.
* On average, each UK household receives 18 items of junk mail every week.
* The annual total of unsolicited mail and hand-delivered flyers in the UK weighs about 550,000 tonnes. The vast majority of this is unsolicited unaddressed junk mail.
* Australians receive on average 8.2 billion unaddressed flyers, leaflets and catalogues in their letterboxes every year. If each household said no to junk mail that could save almost 1,000 pieces of unwanted junk each year!
* Most of the junk mail jammed into Australian letterboxes is manufactured by a company that produces Australia's magazine paper. About 70-80% of the content comes from timber plantations. Very little recycled content is used.
* Americans spend over $275 million per annum to dispose of junk mail.
* More than 100 million trees’ worth of bulk mail arrive in American mail boxes each year – that’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.
* In the USA the production and disposal of junk mail consumes more energy than 2.8 million cars.
* In the USA, an estimated 100 million trees a year are cut down to produce paper used for junk mail, and 28 billion gallons of water are used in the process.
Katia,
Thanks for the great coverage! I just received my first batch of these, which I plan to sell today at the CGNA info table at the Famrer's Market. I made an arrangement with the BoHiAs, and will be selling them at the same price(2/$5).
I love your fab photo! Can you help me? I would dearly love to add a link to our Yahoo group with the photo, and let folks know these are available right here in CG. These sales represent the first "trickle" in my planned income (fundraising) stream for the CGNA. (Know any talented fundraiser types I can recruit?)
Once again, thanks for the coverge, Katia!
Best,
Maria
Why cant folks that WANT friggin fliers post up a sign. Why the hell should anyone have to shell out $ and time to NOT want fliers!
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