How To Opt-Out of The Yellow Pages and White Pages Phone Books
Nothing makes me cringe more then seeing the Yellow Pages or White Pages phone book on my door step. I never asked for it and I’ve never used it. From a “green” standpoint, it’s a major waste of trees and paper as well as a huge filler for landfills. From a business standpoint, when I see the majority of the phone books still out on door steps a week later and in front of empty buildings, I’ve got to believe the advertisers are not getting their money’s worth. Any phone books on my front porch go directly from the steps to the recycle bin in the alley. They never see the inside of my place.
This year, I entered my name and address on Yellowpagesgogreen.org to have myself removed from the distribution list. This site is not run by the printing company but by a group trying to start a movement similar to the National No-Call Directory. Let’s hope it works.
Here’s some key statistics from Yellowpagesgoesgreen.org that may make you dislike the phone books even more. Over 500 million of these books are printed every year.
To produce 500 million books:
• 19 million trees need to be harvested
• 1.6 billion pounds of paper are wasted
• 7.2 million barrels of oil are misspent in their processing (not including the wasted gas used for their delivery to your doorstep)
• 268,000 cubic yards of landfill are taken up
• 3.2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity are squandered
If you want to take your home/office name and address off of the phone book distribution, you can enter your info here. It takes less time then picking up an unsolicited phone book and throwing it in the recycle bin.
