Dear Editor:
For a long time now residents of Elora/Fergus/WhoKnowsWhere have been receiving two bundles of advertising flyers every week – one containing the Wellington Advertiser paper that you are reading right now. It’s only been recently that both bundles started appearing on our driveway on the same day.
That raised my awareness to question: how many duplicate flyers do we really need?
For example, today’s plastic delivery bags both contained flyers for: Staples, Canadian Tire (and two copies of the Canadian Tire “Tool Guide”), Home Hardware, TSC, Tootsies, as well as two copies of the Guelph “Course Guide Fall 2020”, and many more individual single copy flyers.
The total weight of those flyers came to 1.86 pounds (that’s 700 grams for those who bought into the metric system) – not including the newspaper itself – delivered to each household; and then, delivered to the landfill garbage dump unread.
Well, okay, we all read the Advertiser – you’re reading it right now (I meant all the other stuff).
I am by no means a tree hugging, conservationist; indeed, I will admit to coining the expression “green makes me puke” many years ago. However, I know stupid when I see it. My answer to my question is: one copy. The tree hugger’s answer to that question might be none.
Brian Cameron,
Salem