Paper!?!? Who needs PAPER!??!

-  The problem we looked to address was pollution through junk mail. More specifically we hoped to reduce the burdensome amount of junk mail. Junk mail proposes a problem because of its abundance. 

-  When we heard junk mail. We first thought of conducting a survey. This was in order to collect some raw data to find out approximately how many people found junk mail a problem, about how much was being discarded, and how many people would be willing to work toward a solution. After gathering the data we began to formulate a solution.                                   

-  Our method of collecting data was to take a survey asking three questions.

1. How often do you check your E-mail?

2. Do you keep all of the paper advertisements from businesses in the surrounding area or just throw them away?

3. Would you prefer them to just E-mail you these advertisements and discount updates?

From these questions we found that 92% of students check their E-mail at least once a day, 69% of students just throw away paper advertisements when their check their “snail mail” box, and 94% would prefer that those paper advertisements simply be E-mailed to them.                 

-  In preparing our final report for this Conservation Project we took a look back at what we have accomplished through our research. We see our work as a mild success, not an extreme one, at the same time not a failure either. Like in nature, you do not just get a 50 foot tall redwood, it takes time, you must first plant the seed, allow it to germinate, and the years it takes to grow to that height. The same occurs in life and we see our project as the seed and possible germination of a plan, thought, idea, whatever you would like to call it to something that could one day help end a use of paper for unimportant uses.

-  Before engaging in this project we never gave much thought to the potential problem that junk mail could create on the environment. However, after the fact we became totally aware of the effects, better yet the strains that junk mail (potentially) places on the environment. Residing in a ten story dorm building, we have the opportunity to observe mail on a – somewhat – mass scale.

Hello Hello!! Our blog is designed to confront and discuss a very important environmental issue that takes place not only on the UW-Whitewater campus but at Universities across the nation!!! You know all that junk mail you get in your “snail” mailbox in the dorm buildings? Well think about that for just one second, how many advertisements do you get in there that you just throw out right away? I mean, why do you think the hall directors put a recycle bin right next to the mailboxes? Our blog is here to discuss how we could find a way to reduce or even eliminate the use of paper by businesses on and around campus. The idea we came up with was to simply give every business that sends an advertisement through snail mail to the campus mailboxes, a list of all the students E-mail addresses so they could do everything electronically. More and more people are beginning to forget about their snail mail anyway!!! Just think about your typical day, what is the first thing you usually do? CHECK YOUR E-MAIL THEN YOUR FACEBOOK!!! Of course this is just one idea, there are two sides to every sword, some people wouldn’t want their personal E-mail just given out to people and companies they do not know. The focus of this blog is brainstorm ideas that people Universities could use to help the environment save valuable paper and in effect save the world. On the larger scale think about this, if we use more paper, that means consuming more trees, increasing deforestation, decreasing real estate, soon enough there is natural resource left for us to create paper from.

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