Don’t throw out your phone book – recycle it!

It’s about this time of the year that we’ll find a new phone book on our front door step. It surprising that it’s not one of those things that slowly gone away since you can find so much information on the internet. If you’re one of those people who doesn’t even keep yours or you just need to know where you can take your old one to be recycled, head on over to Earth911.

At the top of their home page, you can enter what you’d like to recycle and your zip code.  A list will then shows up showing you where you can go. While you’re there, take a look at the main menu across the top of the page to see other items that can be recycled that you may not normally think of.

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5 Responses to Don’t throw out your phone book – recycle it!

  1. We’ve gotten four different phone books from three different companies in the past month. Luckily, our recycling center accepts phone books.

  2. Pingback: Where can I recycle my old phone book? « Trying To Be Greener

  3. As somone who works for the Yellow Pages in Australia , try contacting your telco provider as well. Chances are they have a program set up already. And hey – if you use the Yellow Pages – don’t forget to tell the folks you ring from there that you found their phone number in the Yellow Pages.

  4. As somone who works for the Yellow Pages in Australia , try contacting your telco provider as well. Chances are they have a program set up already. And hey – one easy way to support local businesses is to use your Yellow Pages. And if you use the Yellow Pages – don’t forget to tell the folks you ring from there that you found their phone number in the Yellow Pages.

  5. Interesting. Those phone books are really a bane, aren’t they?

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