According to the Native Forest Network, the average mail recipient receives some 560 pieces of junk mail a year, and simply tosses almost half of it. That’s adds up to 4.5 million tons of unrequested bulk mail sent each year, or the destruction of 100 million trees. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to dramatically reduce the mayhem in your mailbox: To stop the flow of credit-related offers, request that credit reporting agencies, the chief source of names for mailing lists, stop sharing your information.