Recycle More Paper - Earth Class Mail

Saving Trees, One Letter at a Time

Of all the materials we recycle in America, mail is the least recycled of all. While 50% of all paper is recycled, only 16% of mail is reused to benefit our environment.

In the U.S., over 200 billion pieces of mail are sent each year with 84% or 168 billion pieces are filling up landfills. That's 2 billion pounds of paper!
The U.S. throws away 1 billion trees' worth of paper every year.

Earth Class Mail customers recycle over 60% of their mail.

For every ton of paper we recycle, we reduce the air pollution produced by new paper production by 74%, and water pollution by 35%. We also keep more toxic ink, formaldehyde and other chemicals out of the landfills.

For every ton of paper we recycle, we save 204 trees and consume 8,190 fewer gallons of petroleum.

Did you know that once paper is shredded, the paper fiber is destroyed and it cannot be reused as paper?

If you use the Earth Class Mail service, we encourage you to recycle 100% of the mail that you do not have forwarded to you. For added security, we truck secured containers of refuse mail directly to recycling facilities to be immediately disintegrated and made into new paper. That means recycling is as secure as shredding, and much more environmentally friendly.