The average American gets 41 pounds of junk mail a year – credit card offers, insurance promotions, coupon packets, sweepstakes entries, and more. But the junk mail is more than just an unneeded headache. It’s a huge waste of time and natural resources.

The deluge of junk mail is never more apparent than when it’s time to sort through the mail after returning from a summer vacation.  Wouldn’t it be nice to come home from relaxing and find only mail that you actually want or need?

Did you know:
• More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to create junk mail.
• Junk mail produces more greenhouse gas emissions than 2.8 million cars.
• Junk mail wastes 28 billion gallons of water annually.
• The average adult spends 70 hours a year dealing with junk mail.
• The world’s temperate forests absorb 2 billion tons of carbon annually to help keep the planet cool and healthy.

This summer, you can stop your household’s junk mail and unwanted catalogs, thanks to Carbonfund.org partner 41pounds.org. 41pounds.org stops household junk mail by contacting dozens of direct mail companies to remove everyone in your household from marketing lists. You’ll also keep more trees in the forest doing what they do best—providing oxygen for us to breathe and absorbing carbon to cool the planet.

And when you sign up with 41pounds.org to stop your junk mail, 41pounds.org will donate $15 to Carbonfund.org, which will go toward renewable energy and reforestation projects.

“If each of us makes small changes that improve our daily lives and improve the health of the planet, imagine the collective impact we can have together,” says 41pounds.org co-founder Sander DeVries. “We founded 41pounds.org as a nonprofit service to stop the deluge of junk mail and catalogs, and to provide a simple, meaningful way for people to reduce our impact on the environment.”