Comments on Tips & Treasures: Opt out of paper-wasting phone books

kenc, Sorry I never really knew (or cared much) w...

2009-06-09T13:20:25.481-04:00

kenc,

Sorry I never really knew (or cared much) whether phone books were made with recycled paper or not.

But that's not exactly my point here. My point is that it is a COMPLETE waste. It takes much more than recycled paper and wood chips to produce a phone book. SOme of what comes to mind is... electricity, shipping of said recycled paper and wood chips, etc.

Oh, and let us not forget the trucks shipping the phone books. The cars that must deliver each phone book to each and every single house.

It's wasted resources all around. So you really can't get your panties all in a bunch over whether it's deforestation or not.

The point is wasted resources for something I DON'T EVEN WANT.

And the point of my post is that now there is a convenient, easy way to OPT OUT of soemthing you don't want or use.

Sorry to get all rampant, but I'm passionate about these things.

There is no "deforestation" as a result ...

2009-06-09T10:30:50.385-04:00

There is no "deforestation" as a result of printed Yellow Pages

While the popular myth is that this industry is responsible for the neutering of forests, the reality is the Yellow Pages industry doesn’t knock down any trees for its paper!!! Let me repeat that – they don’t need to cut any trees for their paper supply.

Currently, on average, most publishers are using about 40% recycled material (from the newspapers and magazines you are recycling curbside), and the other 60% comes from wood chips and waste products of the lumber industry. If you take a round tree and make square or rectangular lumber from it, you get plenty of chips and other waste. Those by-products make up the other 60% of the raw material needed. Note that these waste products created in lumber milling would normally end up in landfills.

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