Junk Mail vs Spam Emails

Remember the days of snail mail, every piece of junk mail would come in paper form?

Then we got the internet, and junk mail exploded.... But we of course found a way around that, with filters and firewalls that send it all to the trash. I personally have noticed that flyers in my mail box are way up this last year, and wondering if advertisers are going back to hard copies that you actually have to throw away. But, on the other hand, I do notice a lot more junk mail getting throw to me also. At least the hard copy junk mail is stuff I use, and not all these foreign dating services, make money from home, and some I don't even mention.

This brings the question, which Junk mail pollutes the earth more? Hard copies or spam? The easy answer is hard copies, until you look into it. Most of the flyers are recyclable, and are made of recyclable material. So you obviously have the power to make them, and for trash trucks to pick up the recyclable containers, but what about the power spam mail uses. You don't think about it but computers are always drawing power, and somewhere something is drawing power to run all the filters and fire walls. Just another day and another problem, we should really be mad at Al Gore for the internet. ;-)