Sign up for e-statements

This is the latest trend going on for some time. Banks, credit card companies, and the like are pestering people to sign up for e-statements in the name of saving the trees, saving the planet.

I am very much in favor of stopping wastage of paper, so I did sign up for e-statements with all my banks and credit card companies quite a while ago.

But guess what? I don't think I have helped to save even a small tree limb. These institutions have doubled or trippled mailing of their promotional literature, a.k.a. junk mail, ever since.

What is your experience? I guess our planet is destined to be doomed by these greedy businesses.