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The Environmental Problem of Phone Books

sciam.com — Many of us have little or no use for phone books anymore--consumers and businesses increasingly rely on the Internet to find goods and services. According to the nonprofit YellowPagesGoesGreen.org, more than 500 million phone directories—nearly two books for every American—are printed and distributed every year in the U.S. Why the waste?

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  • bcassner, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1They should start doing like some department stores do for catalogs and charge a fee for them.

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