How to Recycle the Yellow Pages

As new editions are delivered to millions of homes around America every year, it's not surprising that old phone books, according to "Green Eco Services," produce 660,000 tons of trash annually. Phone books are made of paper, so the fact that they're completely recyclable is also unremarkable. The difference between the yellow pages and the latest issue of your favorite periodical, however, is that YellowPages.com and AT&T have recently teamed up to make recycling old yellow pages easier.

Instructions

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  Take your old yellow pages to your local recycling center. Alternatively, if your home or neighborhood is equipped with recycling bins, drop the yellow pages in the one designated for paper.

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  Contact "Keep America Beautiful," an environmental group backing AT&T's and YellowPages.com's new drive to recycle old yellow pages, if you don't know where in your area to recycle the old yellow pages. Call the organization at 1-877-887-3292 to learn where you can take your yellow pages phone books.

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  Keep your old yellow pages and make use of them. Whether you stand on stacks of them to help you reach high places or tear out pages to pad boxes containing fragile items, your old yellow pages have a wide array of potential uses if you'd rather not get rid of them outright. When the paper finally exhausts its usefulness, you can recycle it as you would have done anyway.