It’s that magical time of year again when 3,800 pages worth of unneeded phone books arrive, uninvited, on my front porch. Out with the old, in with the new…but with a twist: The old phone books are 100% recyclable. You can just throw them right into your blue curbside bins, and Charleston County Recycling will do the rest. Tell your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors to keep these massive hunks of trees out of the landfill!
And back to the “unneeded” part (every year some phone book advocate shows up touting the greatness of their publication for small business advertising…yawn). Both The Real Yellow Pages and The Talking Phone Book have great online directories, so I think this year I’ll cut the cord and begin using them. Why use 3,800 pages of paper to do something the Internet can do faster, cheaper, and with less impact on the environment? To stop the phone book from being delivered to your home or business, you can simply opt out! Here’s how:
- The Real Yellow Pages: Fill out this form.
- Talking Phone Book: Email their distribution department.
If you want to take it up a notch, here are some great ideas from YellowPagesGoesGreen.org on how you can work with your local goverment to establish better practices for the distribution of phone books.
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Bring your old phone book to the Charleston Battery home game tomorrow night, August 20, 2009, and turn it in for a FREE ticket to the game! The Battery are taking on the Vancouver Whitecaps with kick-off set for 7:30pm, and gates opening at 6:30pm. Now that’s what I call recycling with rewards!!!
Suzanne – That’s a really creative idea…how was the participation? Keep up the good work – we love what you and the Battery are doing over there.
Hi Chad – thanks for the kind words! We had a great turnout with phone books; about 250 people brought us their phone books to be recycled, and the Battery ended in a 1-1 draw with Vancouver. All around great night! Thanks for checking in with us