Earth Class Mail

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Earth Class Mail, an online service for accessing postal mail, will recognize its customers' recycling efforts by donating a tree for each one of them this Earth Day, April 22. It's part of an effort to offset the impact junk mail has on the environment while also raising awareness of how virtual mailboxes can decrease people's carbon footprint. The company has committed to becoming carbon neutral by the end of 2022. More than half of all mail processed by the U.S. Postal Service is junk mail, most of which is thrown away. Earth Class Mail customers don't have to sift through that bulk. Instead, their junk mail is part of the 6 tons of mail recycled each week at the company's operations center. Customers also choose to recycle the majority of their other mail, flagging only the documents they want to preserve. Every year in the U.S., an estimated 5.6 million tons of junk mail ends up in landfills, in part because as much as two-thirds of articles people try to recycle ends up contaminated, according to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency