{"id":1171,"date":"2006-04-21T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2006-04-25T16:53:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T16:53:57","slug":"time-to-stop-sending-catalogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Time to stop sending catalogues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read today about a neat protest against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/envirohealth\/35244\/\">Victoria&#8217;s Secret, which mails 395 million catalogs annually [in the US], most printed on virgin paper<\/a>. The protesters want it to use recycled paper &#8211; a start, but not, I&#8217;d suggest enough. Why, in the multimedia age, do we still need to not only print on paper, but then ship that vast weight around countries (and even across the world) &#8211; consuming lots of fossil fuel in the process?<\/p>\n<p>I recently rang up Land&#8217;s End, a particularly egregarious offender in sending vast numbers of catalogues, sometimes it seems at weekly intervals, and asked them to stop. &#8220;Don&#8217;t you like us any more?&#8221; was the line of questioning. &#8220;No,&#8221; I said, &#8220;if I decided I need any more white T-shirts or similar, I will look on the website.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Surely it is time for companies to at least provide the option of not getting catalogues? By all means send me a regular email with special offers etc, or reminding me to visit your website &#8211; I think the environment can bear the electrons &#8211; but don&#8217;t use 20th-century methods of promotion; you&#8217;ll only annoy me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read today about a neat protest against Victoria&#8217;s Secret, which mails 395 million catalogs annually [in the US], most printed on virgin paper. The protesters want it to use recycled paper &#8211; a start, but not, I&#8217;d suggest enough. Why, in the multimedia age, do we still need to not only print on paper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}