Green[Wood] Tip of the Week – No More Phone Books

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Does anyone actually use phone books anymore? In the day-and-age of internet it is really not common to look for a business via the yellow pages; you can check out your neighbor’s address online too. It is a disgusting site to come home to find a stack of yellow pages [which get sent to me for being a home owner and a business owner] and a set of the white pages piled up 12 inches high on my front porch. To get rid of the shame surrounding my personal hoarding of paper excess and the guilt of killing a tree, I immediately take the books to the recycle bin and clunk them in there. Still … not feeling really good about throwing perfectly good, unread pages into a waste bin.

It’s time people to stand up and do something about all this excess waste! I found a site (online) where you can opt out of receiving phone books and I went ahead and registered myself and my business. Yellow Pages Go Green

I’m not 100% positive that opting out on an online form is going to stop the books coming to me. I think ultimately what needs to happen is to establish an ordinance banning the delivery of phone books and enforcing it with city ordinance litter laws. I just signed the petition [online opt out form] and will see what happens. If anyone knows about opting out of phone book delivery, comment below. I’d love to hear from you!