September 30th, 2009 · No Comments

By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now

An opt-out program to stop the receipt of the Yellow Pages on your doorstop has recently become an option, but what about the white pages? Perhaps opting-in is a better solution for the environment.

(Photo: banthephonebook.org)

According to Banthephonebook.org, every year five million trees are used in the production of the white pages phone books. Then, it costs $17 million each year to recycle the phone books. And many phone books end up in landfills because people simply throw them away instead of recycling. The website also says that a Whitepages.com survey found that 80 percent of people would support an opt-in program, which theoretically would reduce phone book consumption because it would stop automatic deliveries of phone books.

Nowadays, many people use their cell phones or online sites to search for phone numbers, leaving doubts about whether physical copies are even necessary.

If you want to join the white pages opt-in movement, sign the petition to let the phone directory companies know. More than 16,000 people already have signed the petition. But until there is a white pages opt-in program in place, the best option you have is to opt-out with the Yellow Pages.

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