Click on the picture to find 5 easy ways to stop unwanted mail. Recycling junk mail is better than sending it to landfill but there are often enveloppes and plastic wrappings that can't be recycled easily and then there is the fuel used in transporting this unwanted mail to your house and removing it from your house. So stop unwanted mail being 
transported to you in the first place by:
by phoning 0845 703 4599 or registering online at the Mailing Preference Service. If you opt for the Mailing Preference Service (MPS) having read this, it would be helpful to us if you could list RoWAN when prompted for 'where you have heard about the MPS'.
registering to opt out of the Royal Mail’s Door to Door service (which delivers unaddressed mail such as flyers) by visiting the Royal Mail opt out page, or call 08457 950950. An template letter for Royal mail opt out can be downloaded from the Zero Waste stop the drop.
Also write, phone or email to the sender of catologues that you no longer want. Go paperless, get you bills online.
If you are keen on composting, recycling, waste-free cooking or cutting waste in general then become a Zero Waste Volunteer. RoWAN have recently has received further funding from Zero Waste Scotland to recruit and work with volunteers in the Highlands to help spread the word on how people can cut waste by: 
The Mailing Preference Service (MPS) is a free service set up 20 years ago and funded by the direct mail industry to enable consumers to have their names and home addresses in the UK removed from or added to lists used by the industry. It is actively supported by the Royal Mail and all directly involved trade associations and fully supported by The Information Commissioners Office.
