Yellow Pages Goes Green
June 30, 2008 – 5:14 pm
True story. Today I was working on a project outside a friend’s office, when out of nowhere, a guy appeared and, without a word, handed me two enormous phone books then hopped into a van and drove away. Like most of you I had no idea what to do with them.
Every year over 500 million of these now obselete phone books are produced and delivered in the United States, wasting over 1.6 billion pounds of paper, as well as huge amounts of trees, energy, oil, and landfill space. An organization called Yellow Pages Goes Green is trying to change all that. YPGG is leading the campaign to reduce production and stop unwanted delivery of these directories. The goal is not to put the publishers out of business, but just to decrease the waste by encouraging them to only deliver to those who request them.
You can help too, by signing up to have your name removed from the delivery list; or if you still use your Yellow Pages, find a location in your area where you can recycle them when you are finished.
-JH
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One Response to “Yellow Pages Goes Green”
this is the dumbest waste of paper not to mention paper money
By smurr on Aug 5, 2008