Comments on: Swag is fun, but what about the trees?

CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman has a message to the flacks sending him tons of junk each week: Just say no!

[jwombat]

Swag is fun, but what about the trees?

Good for you for calling attention to this practice of waste.

[bjwhaw]

Save the Trees?

The truth is, most of the in the United States comes from a hybrid tree specifically designed to provide the best possible fibers for paper. Some people call them the Sasquach Trees. They kinda look hairy (well the trees grown in my state. They don't live long 25 - 50 years, grow fast, quickly harvested, and come from managed "Forests". Granted the Virgin forest that was there disappeard, but that was generations ago. Sustainable harvesting of trees can actually improve the quality of the forest. Controlled burning, and since the seeds are left behind, a species is not wiped out.

[keaggy220]

BAN THIS COMMENT

Everyone knows that when the Cnet environmental experts talk that
no one should interject with common sense comments like this...
Simply outrageous disrupting a no-truth zone...

[satayboy]

swag

So much of advertising seems to require waste. How about the junk mail the mailman sends us every day? Or the off-brand yellow-pages book delivered to your doorstep, whether you want it or not?

[rstinnett]

Don't knock it

As an underpaid, overworked employee the only BRIGHT spots at certain times are the free stuff I get from vendors. If you feel that bad about getting stuff, donate it. Donate the books to the local library, the food items to the local homeless shelter, etc.

[crazynexus]

And I thought we were the only ones..

This is not unusual, it seems.. working for the Feds, OfficeDepot (or whomever they are now, I think they've been bought) will send our supplies in these GIANT boxes, you open it up thinking half your order is in there.. nope, it's 2 pens. At the office here we always go "What? That makes very little sense...they're just wasting shipping money and boxes." My other favorite is to see the giant Fed Ex semi's pull into our very small parking lot (I have no idea how they manage to not crunch our gov't vehicles turning the corner getting in), and they deliver 3 boxes of supplies, and a box of paper.. Huh?

[27charlie]

It starts with each of us

Umm, maybe they wouldn't pull into your tiny parking lot if you didn't order office supplies to be delivered overnight.

[RJBlackKS]

waste?

it only becomes waste if you don't throw it into the recycling bin...

[ralahinn1]

I don't mind getting free stuff

any corporation out there that doesn't like to get"free" things(especially video game related )is more than welcome to send it on to me:) I like getting free stuff including"campy" displays and tee shirts;)