Reducing Waste from Junk Mail
Is Christmas junk mail building up in your letterbox? The Mackenzie District Council has joined a new scheme to reduce
the amount of junk mail that goes into letterboxes and ultimately ends up at the district’s resource recovery parks.
Solid waste manager Angie Taylor says Ecomailbox is a new way to stay informed about deals at your favourite stores
without the waste of paper advertising.
To reduce waste from unwanted circulars, Ecomailbox provides residents with a durable “No Ad Mail” letter box sticker,
suitable for all surfaces and weather. Residents who use the sticker on their letter box will stop receiving paper
circulars and instead will be able to view them online at the Ecomailbox website www.ecomailbox.co.nz.
The site displays offers, promotions and community notices from retailers, deal sites, travel sites, newspapers and
designers. When logging into the site you only see new and relevant mail, laid out under category headings, making it
easy to stay informed.
Angie Taylor says the letterbox stickers are free and can be picked up from Mackenzie District Council offices in
Fairlie and Twizel, and from the Kiwi Treasures shop in Tekapo.
“I’m also happy to post the stickers out to people on request. I think this is a great way to reduce the amount of paper
in our letterboxes without people missing out on specials. It also has the advantage of viewing flyers that we might not
receive in the Mackenzie... perfect for Christmas shopping.”
According to Ecomailbox, it is estimated that 30kg of advertising circulars are delivered to each home in New Zealand
every year. The paper used to print these comes from 291,079 trees. At the end of October, 75,000 “No Ad Mail” stickers
had been distributed nationwide.
Using the sticker on your letterbox will not stop you receiving local free newspapers like the Fairlie Accessible or the
Twizel Update.
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