Cancel the junk mail

Cut down on wasted paper by removing yourself from direct mailing lists.

Cutting the junk mail arriving through your letterbox could mean a big reduction in resource and energy needs.

Many of us are used to getting marketing mail fed through our letterbox on a regularly basis. And most of us simply scoop it off the doormat and place it straight into the bin.

But you can cut down on the volume of unsolicited mail that you receive by simply excluding your address from the relevant mailing lists via the Mail Preference Service.

Any unwanted mail that continues to arrive can be put back in the post box (no additional stamp needed) with a message written on it asking to be removed from that company’s mailing list.

You can help further by ensuring that any mail you do still receive is sorted and sent for recycling rather than just being placed into your main rubbish bin.