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STOP YELLOW WASTE

phonebooks

Written by Elsa Brown: When was the last time you looked at a phone book? For many of us the answer has little to do with looking up a number. With the ubiquity of the internet, the phone book has become an irrelevant form of print reference and unfortunately a prevalent contributor to city waste.

Stop Yellow Waste is documenting the phenomenon of phone books left out on city sidewalks and taking steps to stop this preventable pile up. Their goal is to get phone companies to shift phone book distribution to an opt in model instead of the traditional opt out, and to urge people to opt out now, until the change is made. See photos of discarded phone books sent in from cities worldwide, submit your own, and learn more about paper waste at their website.

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