19 Hearst Magazines to Include "Please Recycle" Logo Starting in July

Hearst Magazines will use the Table of Contentsaccess to magazine recycling in their communities
page to encourage its readers to recycle thoseand curbside. More magazine recycling would help
contents instead of tossing them in the trash.grow the supply of recovered fiber and further
Beginning with July issues, all 19 U.S. glossies willreduce demand on the world's forests.
feature the "Please Recycle This Magazine" logo,The Please Recycle logo will be prominently
and Hearst will become the first to adopt, acrossdisplayed in Hearst magazines either on the
its entire line, the green initiative launched by themasthead page or in the table of contents, and
Magazine Publishers of America earlier this year...Editors-in-Chief will promote the appearance of
Surprisingly, fewer than 20 percent of Americansthe logo in their various Editor's Letters and/or
are recycling their magazines at home, evenelsewhere in their magazines.
though at least two-thirds of the population has