We live in a three-family home with a decent amount of tenant turnover. It feels like more than a few times per year piles of new phone books languish outside our front door before someone takes the initiative to either recycle them or on rare occasion, actually incorporate them into their administrative life.
It does feel like a pretty gross waste to take such a big chunk of paper and toss it in the recycling before it even has a chance at life. But it seems that today more people than not use the internet to look up phone numbers. Professional organizer Jeri Dansky just posted some tips on her blog about how to TRY to stop receiving phone books...
i live in a pretty big complex.. moslty one bedrooms.. and a few weeks ago, every unit got 3 copies of the yellowpages.
what an insane waste! and we dont have recycling!
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There is actually another site that you can go to, to register to Opt Out of the delivery of the Yellow Pages: www.ypdnd.com. It is the Yellow Pages do not deliver registry.
The big difference with the site, is that it targets directories based upon your address, and you can select which ones you want to receive or not.
Most of the publishers I have spoken to said they have never heard from the guy at yellow pages goes green, and the very few that have, said that most of the information is not correct, since all he does is send them blind lists.
It is going to be a fight no matter what, but in the end, it is one that is worth fighting.
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