It’s that time of year again – new phone books are arriving on porches and driveways throughout the Lowcountry. This means updated information, but also tons of excess waste. Please remember that Charleston County Recycling accepts old phone books for reclamation, and you can throw them right into your blue curbside bin with other paper items.
It still irks me that every residence and business gets not one, but ?TWO metro area phone books each year. In today’s digital age, do we really need this paper relic? Here are some ways you can reduce your dependency on these pulpy dinosaurs:
- Use the Yellow Pages online – I bet they update it more than once each year (unlike your phone book)
- You can discontinue delivery of your Talking Phone Book by emailing distribution@talkingphonebook.com.
- You can discontinue delivery of your Yellow Pages by visiting their online portal at yellowpagesgoesgreen.org.
- Work to develop local ordinances that encourage responsible printing and distribution of phone books. Here are some ideas.
So remember, when you are deciding what to do with your old phone books, let your fingers do the walking straight to the reycling bin.
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“pulp dinosaurs”??? So the 13 BILLION references last year they got don’t count??
Yep, pulp dinosaurs. I can get all the same information on my computer, phone, PDA, PSP, Wii, or by just calling information. Just saying…
What the folks over at YellowPagesGoesGreen are doing is excellent and if you’re tired of receiving white and yellow phone books that you don’t need and you didn’t ask for – sign up ASAP! More than likely that will not get you off the list as soon as you’d like. At least not yet!
Best bet is to call each of the Yellow Pages and White Pages directory publishers direct. I wrote a post about it here:
http://yousnoozeyoulose.com/2008/08/11/yellow-pages-love-em-or-hate-em/
This is AMAZING!! I really hate that I get these phone books without asking for them. They are such a waste and they are too big to even use a paper weight.
We recently received two unwanted phone books so I wish I ad these links before the delivery but at least I have it now in time for next years!!
I will definitely pass this along! Thanks so much!!
I happen to be one of the owners of MyJunkTree and as a new company I search the web to see if we are getting any visibility out there and I post on relevant blogs.
We launched the company because we were tired of all the junk mail we were receiving and we personally did not want to bounce all over the web to contact all the different companies to stop it all. First and foremost we wanted to let people choose what they wanted to let come to their home knowing that some people really do like some of the coupons and catalogs. So our clients choose what they want stopped.
We also had to provide a service that is different than the other services out there, so here is what we offer:
1. We have a database of over 1300 catalogs that you can choose to stop.
2. We have over a 2000 charities/Non-Profits that you can stop solicitations from.
3. Stop the delivery of the national phone directories.
4. Stop the delivery of the weekly coupons.
5. Stop the general credit card offers as well as the ones from your own major bank.
6. Stop the miscellaneous junk mail from the data brokers.
7. You can register on the National Do Not Call Registry from the website.
8. You can order your no strings attached free annual credit report right from the website.
9. We plant trees with every new membership.
And, yes we are a paid service and yes you can do everything that we do for free, if you want to do all the research and spend the time contacting the companies yourself it can easily be done. We have just done all of the legwork for our clients and feel there is value in the service we provide.
Chad – thanks for the info! I’ve already “unsubscribed” for next year’s delivery.