If you come across any phone books on the street snap a photo and send it to: pics@stopyellowwaste.com

All the photos pop up on: http://stopyellowwaste.com/ and if you take it with a smartphone the photos will also geotag so we can show how serious the problem is across the globe.

There are so many people who stand behind this cause – its time for phone book companies to think beyond the book!

This, of course, is not the way to combat the issue, but like I mentioned, I was fuming at the time, and didn’t really care, as long as I got my little sucker punch in.

Great article and follow-up Lea.

I imagine in the tough times we’re currently facing economically, that it must be dangerously foolish for these large companies to keep spending huge amounts of money on print materials. Slowing the spending on print seems like an easy way to cut corners on their end of things- in hopes of saving a little coin. That being said, you would think that this would be advantageous to the public- people like you and I who want to see this type of nonsense stopped.

It’s wonderful to hear the responses you’ve received. That alone leads me to believe that my assumptions about cutting corners on print costs must be at least somewhat accurate.

Keep us in the loop!

Here is additional information is you would like to opt-out as I just did a few minutes ago. The inside cover of the directory points customers to http://corporate.yellowbook.com/contact-us/print-directory-inquiries/ to request opt-out. I’m doubtful that this will actually work since the vacant luxury condo building next to me currently has six books littering the walk outside its front door, and I suspect the delivery of the books is not on an individual basis. It is worth a try though!

Makes me think of the bag recycle container in front of the grocery store… people feel good about the effort they have made to bring the bags to the recycling container… But my question is why don’t they just reuse the plastic bags they just dropped off?