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girlawhirl helps save some trees by stopping a phone book from being automatically dropped at her door Oct 2, 2008
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Now that her cell phone and computer have become like extensions of her fingers, Girlawhirl finds that there are some vestiges from the old “look it up” world she no longer considers indispensable: an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an address book and certainly a phone book… But still, she'll arrive home every now and then and find stacks of them either inside the door to her apartment building or spread out by the mailboxes. And more often than not they linger there – often for weeks – until someone includes them with the weekly recycling. With 411, and yellowpages.com, who needs phone books in a tiny city-sized apartment?
And while Girlawhirl is always sure to recycle a phone book she doesn't need, she cringes at the waste of it all… trees cut down, energy used in the paper making and printing processes and tons of water too. But now she can go to yellowpagesgoesgreen.org and sign up to opt out of phone book delivery.
It takes just a second, all she had to do was enter her name, home address and email address. Then a confirmation email was sent to her and she was finished. Since more than 540 million phone books are printed in the US alone (that's 1.79 phone books per person!), she's happy to help reduce that number and save a few trees.
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