How to recycle your White and Yellow Pages
We have just had our new 2010/2011 White and Yellow Pages dropped off today and I thought it would be useful to highlight how they have said you can recycle your old phone books. This is useful information for those who are not so sure what they should do. For those with less than 4 books you can put them straight into the Yellow top recycling bin. For those with between 4 and 50 books you can drop off a local transfer stations or eco depots. Any more than that and you can either directly drop off at an Eco Depot or contact a paper recycler directly. Not putting more than four phone books in your recycling bin will be most likely because they will be too heavy.
Good on the Yellow pages for providing this information. The next step would be to provide an opt out service for those of us who are happy to use the internet and reduce the amount of paper used to make phone books and phone books are made from recycled paper not from virgin pulp.
There are a couple of other ideas for what to do with old phone books on the Oily Rag website (scroll down to ‘P’).
