It is estimated that junk mail creates about 10 billion pounds of solid waste and costs communities over $1 billion to collect and dispose of it.

Of all the junk mail mailed, upwards of 60% of it is never recycled – it is either incinerated or stored in landfills.

Add that to paper products we actually use and then discard and the impact in terms of waste is staggering.

Worse than the waste, however, is the potential junk mail and other paper products hold in terms of energy potential that is never utilized.

Excepting those paper products treated with chemicals almost all of it is a burnable energy resource that most of us just throw away.

On the next page is an awesome process for re-purposing your junk mail and other discarded paper products into a fuel source that will burn safely for hours.

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