yellow pages

Opt-out of the wasteful $26 billion phone directory industry

Posted August 21, 2008 - 12:00 by Paul Michael

Frugal Living, Green Living, Consumer Affairs

yellow pages in the dumpster

In this day and age of the internet, free Google 411 and a host of other paperless directory services, what use do the big, fat phone directories serve? I don’t know about you, but when I get those large plastic bags filled with 3lb phone books, I usually put them straight in the recycling bin. We never use them. Now a website similar to the National No-Call registry is asking you to sign up and stop receiving these archaic books.

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