IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run
Good riddance, in my opinion. 40 million copies of a thick catalog with glossy pages means a couple shittons of not just trees but petroleum and petrochemicals for production, distribution, and disposal. Every year! And ten years ago, it was nearly 200. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;rHAhG</a><p>Can you even imagine a stack of one million catalogs?<p>That&#x27;s space, trees, plants, mammals, birds, insects, mushrooms, ... all being squeezed for a glossy catalog, most of which will get thumbed through once or twice and sent to the landfill to rot.<p>These catalogs do not biodegrade well, by the way, because they&#x27;re not just paper.<p>I love paper books, and I enjoyed browsing this catalog just like many others in this thread, and yet I don&#x27;t think I will miss this one. Hopefully, other thick glossy catalogs will follow suit.<p>Production of catalogs like this squeezes our biome, and if we don&#x27;t turn back, it will pop, and we&#x27;ll be left with only enough resources for a small fraction of us to survive.