Get thee behind me, tree-killer phone book devils...
I was under the impression that putting in a formal request NOT to receive a phone book was a futile gesture, that a truck would still drive by and somebody would heave a big portion of a dead tree onto my front steps. But, some weeks ago, I received only this very small portion of a dead tree, above, which acknowledged that my formal request actually had an impact.
Wonderful, I say, but I would have preferred a notice about the size of a Post-It note.
Tree-killer phone book devils? Please take a note.
No, wait, on second thought...don't take a note. Don't use any more paper. Just REMEMBER.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong
Oh, that's just b.s. from some kind of flak for the tree-killing phonebook companies.
No trees are "killed" for yellow pages paper
The Yellow Pages industry doesn’t knock down any trees for its paper!!! Let me repeat that – they don’t need to cut any trees for their paper supply.
Currently, on average, most publishers are using about 40% recycled material (from the newspapers and magazines you are recycling curbside), and the other 60% comes from wood chips and waste products of the lumber industry. If you take a round tree and make square or rectangular lumber from it, you get plenty of chips and other waste. Those by-products make up the other 60% of the raw material needed. Note that these waste products created in lumber milling would normally end up in landfills.
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