I remember years ago when I wanted to find an address, phone number, or a resource for something (like where I could buy metal for a new art project) – and I would pull out the phone book and spend a few minutes looking things up. In the last 5 years – my use of the phone book has changed to where I never use it – and whenever I have – I found it does not usually have what I am looking for.
Today I use the internet and online Yellow pages to find phone numbers, addresses, and resources – and my phone book has gone from a weekly use, to sporadic, to none.
I also have increasingly felt annoyed with the number of phone books that I get sent to me. There once was one company (usually with a name with Bell in it) – and the white pages and yellow pages. Today I get phonebooks from multiple companies – and the books do not fit in one drawer. I usually end up recycling most of them.
Did you know that there are about 540,000,000 yellow page directories printed each and every year in the United States? To make these, over 7,200,000 barrels of fossil fuel, 3.2 kilowatt hours of electricity, and thousands of trees are use – all in one year.
Want to opt out of getting phone books delivered to your house? There is a website where you can contact the company that delivers your directores, and request for them to stop.
Goto www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org, which has listings for phone book companies. Click on opt out – and you will goto www.yellowpagesoptout.com where you enter your zipcode and the site will provide you with the local company/s responsible for shipping/delivering your phonebooks. For my zipcode, 44121, six (!) came up. I registered, completed the form to opt out – and hopefully I will not get any more phone books that I need to recycle.
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