How to Reduce Junk Mail

Addressed JUNK MAIL

Contact the Mailing Preference Service and register with them that you no longer wish to receive any junk mail. By supplying the Mailing Preference Service with your name and address, you will gradually receive less addressed junk mail. The entire process takes up to 4 months to start completely and lasts for 5 years.

NOTE - You will still receive mail from companies that you have done business with in the past e.g. catalogue companies.

Un-addressed JUNK MAIL

Much of the junk mail that people receive is posted out on a regional basis to every household. Visit the Royal Mail Door to Door Opt Out pages and follow the step by step instructions. This can take up to 6 weeks.

NOTE - that by using this service, you will no longer receive the un-addressed information that your District and County Councils send out.

Local JUNK MAIL

Finally, you may wish to put up a `No Free Newspapers or Junk Mail' sticker onto your letterbox. This helps to stop the local junk mail that you tend to get in towns and cities. This can be anything from pizza flyers to landscape gardening adverts. Visit Recycle.co.uk to purchase a sticker.

Did you know?

The average household receives 224 pieces of junk mail every year.

550,000 tonnes of junk mail is generated in the UK every year.

Most of the junk mail that is delivered ends up in landfill sites instead of being recycled.

** Don't forget, if you do receive junk mail, it can be recycled through your kerbside recycling, Community Recycling Centres and local recycling banks.**