When I started working as an assignment editor at WBZ almost twenty five years ago, I couldn't live without the Yellow Pages or the phone book. We had a closet stacked floor to ceiling with them. Of course this was way before Al Gore invented the Internet
Now, who the heck uses the phone book anymore?
A lot of people out there in the blogosphere are venting about the piles and piles of Yellow Books stacking up outside their apartment buildings
One guy says even though only six people live in his building, sixteen Yellow Books were delivered
Well if you agree that phone books are a giant waste of paper, there's something you can do about it
An organization called yellowpagesgoesgreen.org says they can get you off the delivery list. The group is also working with cities and towns to encourage ordinances that would ban the delivery of phone books. They say 500 million books are delivered each year, that's about 19 million trees worth of paper
If you still use the Yellow Book or phone book I'd love to hear why. Are they obsolete or is there still a place for them in society?
