Phonebook papers are 100 percent recyclable and are used primarily to—you guessed it—make new phonebooks! Old phonebooks are also sometimes recycled into building materials and products you use in your home. However, many recyclers won’t accept telephone books because the fibers used to make the books’ lightweight pages are too short to be reformulated into new paper. In fact, mixing old phonebooks in with other waste paper can even contaminate the batch, hindering the recyclability of the other paper fibers. Learn the benefits of recycling phonebooks, and get tips for reusing old phonebooks if your local recycler won't take them.
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Sage, you’re an idiot. Recycling anything possible helps.
http://www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org will allow you to “opt out” from getting a telephone book for you house or business. http://www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org is a free site. Just sign up and they will contact the publisher to stop the delivery of unwanted books.
This article tells us NOTHING about HOW or WHERE to recycle phone books. My local government doesn’t know, and my phone company doesn’t know. So now what do I do with the 20 or so books I have now, taking up space in my already-crowded apartment?
you can call 1-800-953-4400 to find a local place to recycle your phone books.
Go to http://www.earth911.org/ and put in phonebooks and your zip code and it will tell you where to recycle them. Spread the word…
PHONE COMPANIES WON’T STOP PRINTING BOOKS BECAUSE THEY MAKE TONS OF PROFITS FROM ADS, WHILE THEY KILL TONS OF TREES!!
Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for the link Phillip. I am happy to see so many other people wanting to go green. I love feeling like I am helping the environment. I try to save furniture from ending up in a landfill by taking them and applying new paint or upholstery and selling them. I have made great money being green and made at least a small difference on the environment.