Yellow pages: 1. Trees: – 19,000,000
Nineteen million trees are cut down each year to publish both the White and Yellow Pages phone books. As if that isn’t bad enough, there’s also a lot of energy used: 7.2 million barrels of oil and 3 billion kilowatt hours of consumption, as well as 268,000 cubic yards of landfill. And that’s BEFORE we all toss the phone books!
So why not just stop creating them altogether? By now most of us are looking up everything online anyway. (OK, let them make 10,000 books for the over 75- crowd!)
When was the last time you looked through a White or Yellow Pages book? If enough of us opt-out of receiving them they may stop creating these huge tree- and energy-wasting books. You can opt out of getting these books sent to you by signing up at Yellow Pages Goes Green. Please do it now.
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