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Reduce "Junk Mail" to Save Money and Resources
Handling junk mail wastes your staff’s time and therefore company money. One study showed that mailroom staff was spending 25 percent of its time sorting Standard Class advertising mail*. Junk mail is also a waste of our natural resources with over 100 million trees and over 28 billion gallons of water used to produce one year’s worth of this country’s junk mail**. You can help stop this waste by taking action to reduce junk mail at work and at home.
Order or Download a Stop Junk Mail Kit
Get a FREE Stop Junk Mail Kit which includes letter templates to major mailing clearinghouses and other resources for reducing the amount of unsolicited mail received by a business or an individual. Go online, send an email, or call the Santa Clara County Recycling Hotline at 1-800-533-8414 for a Kit.
Set up a System for Handling Junk Mail at Work
There are numerous ways to set up an easy-to-use junk mail reduction system at work. Try these proven methods used by other businesses.
Keep Your Mailing Lists Updated
“Forty-four percent of unsolicited mail is being thrown away unopened and unread,” according to Ljubomir Stambuk, President of Consumer Research Institute in New York. To make sure your direct mail is not part of that 44% being thrown away, give your customers an easy way to contact you and request to be taken off your list. This can also help to save your company money and save natural resources.
The City of Sunnyvale is partnering with over 100 other Bay Area cities and counties to promote the conservation of natural resources through the “Junk Mail Reduction Campaign".
*Source: ww.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/nwpc/bizjunkmail.htm
**Source: http://bayarearecycling.org/junkmail/
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Wednesday, April 30
7 - 8:30 p.m.
Sunnyvale Library, 665 W. Olive Ave., Program Rooms A & B
“Zero Waste” is a philosophy and design principle that goes beyond recycling to take a far-reaching systems approach to the flow of resources and waste through society. Sunnyvale’s City Council will be considering Zero Waste policy options in 2008.
The City’s Recycling/Solid Waste staff will hold an informational meeting, which will include a review of Zero Waste policies and waste reduction/recycling programs from other cities, in order to engage business and residential community members in a discussion on the options that would best fit our community.
An online input form will also be available by April 30 on the Recycling Program's to allow those that are unable to attend the community discussion to provide comments. If you have any questions, please call (408) 730-7484.
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Earth Day Workshop for Sunnyvale Businesses
In celebration of Earth Day, April 22, the Sunnyvale Commercial Recycling Program is sponsoring a:
"Going Green" Brownbag Workshop for Businesses
Friday, April 25, 2008
Noon - 1 p.m.
Hosted by Palm Inc., 950 W. Maude Ave.
Attendees will be inspired by the activities that certified green businesses (from large to small!) in Sunnyvale are doing to reduce their environmental impact and save money through waste reduction, pollution prevention, energy-efficiency and water conservation. Representatives from two certified Sunnyvale Green Businesses - Palm, Inc. and Sports Basement - will offer inspiring examples of how they have implemented environmental initiatives in the workplace.
Santa Clara County Green Business Program staff will discuss how your business can become Green Business certified.
Bring your brown bag lunch - refreshments and dessert will be provided.
Please RSVP by 5 p.m. on Wendesday, April 23 by email or call (408) 730-7484.
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2008 Santa Clara County Green Business Conference
Join other Santa Clara County businesses at the third annual Green Business Conference. Learn how your business can reduce waste, prevent pollution and save money in the process.
The conference will be held at Roche Palo Alto on Friday, March 21, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Cost per person is $20 (pre-registration) or $25 at the door.
The first FIVE employees from Sunnyvale businesses to pre-register by Friday, March 14, 2008 will be registered free of charge, courtesy of the City of Sunnyvale Recycling Program! Limit one registration per business. Simply call the Santa Clara County Green Business Program at (408) 282-3187 to reserve your spot. View the registration form here.
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For the Greener Good! Expo
March 13th, 2008
7:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Ramada Inn Silicon Valley
1217 Wildwood Avenue
The Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce is continually taking steps to be a geener organization and is taking all opportunities to help members do the same. For the Greener Good! Expo is the Chamber's newest business expo which will be held in conjunction with March's Wake Up! Sunnyvale breakfast at the Ramada Inn. Speakers will be representatives of Yahoo!'s Green Team and Lockheed Martin. For details, call the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce at (408) 736-4971.
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