Fed up with a mountain of junk mail landing on your doormat every day?

According to official statistics, the average person receives around 65 items of addressed unwanted and unsolicited mail – junk mail – each year. However many householders receive much, much more.

Carmarthenshire County Council’s recycling team is to host a roadshow explaining how residents can reduce the amount of unwanted mail they receive.

Reducing or completely stopping the junk mail can be achieved by following three simple steps:

• Deregister your address with the Mail Preference Service (MPS) – around 25 per cent of households are registered with the MPS

• For unaddressed regional junk mail contact Royal Mail

• Ask for your address to be removed from their database or phone/write to the company sending you unwanted mail and ask to be removed from their mailing lists.

Carmarthenshire County Council’s executive board member for Technical Services, Councillor Colin Evans, said: “Receiving junk mail can be annoying but staff will be on-hand to help and give information to people on how to stop receiving this unwanted mail.”

The event – part of the European Week for Waste Reduction – is set to take place at the Co-op store in Cross Hands on Wednesday, November 25.

If you are unable to attend the above road shows the information will also be available at the council’s Customer Service desks in the county.