Finally... a way to eliminate the annual arrival of those dinosaur Yellow Pages.

[two-stabs.livejournal.com]

http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/ allows you to opt out* of receiving enormous wastes of paper that were useful prior to 1989.  Click it.  USE IT.

www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org

* A non-binding petition is submitted to the local Yellow Pages distribution machine

Comments

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

There is no national no-delivery organization like the National Do Not Call Registry (https://www.donotcall.gov/). Individual Yellow and White Page organizations state that you can call them and they will put you on a list to not deliver books. But they are not held liable or accountable if the book shows up anyway. www.YellowPagesGoesGreen .org will contact the publishers with the sign up forms to have them "opt out" the individual or business that signs up. It will be the responsibility of the publishers to act in accordance to the consumer’s demand

There's nothing in what this group does that will prevent the publishers from sending the books.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Not, I suspect, in and around Davis Square, but there are still people and places where phone directories are very important. The internet is not universally accessible. I don't want one myself, but I hope they don't go out of business quite yet.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I signed up, although I can tell you right now that the Yellow Pages sells way too much in advertising for them to pay any attention to this list. They'll take the list, say thank you, wipe their ass with it, and deliver them again next year.

I'm especially annoyed because I live in a duplex with eight people total, so they dump a pallet of the things on the porch. Nobody's taken one in.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

Thank you for posting this useful link.

Like junk mail, phone books are now just a means of taking money from consumers and generating profit for few and tremendous amounts of waste for all.

I do not agree, however, that phone books are useless. Wait until you need to place a call when the high speed cable or power goes out. Also, not everyone is an Internet-savvy 20/30-something. Many people from older generations still rely on them.

But still, considering the other avenues available now, it should be an opt-in, not an opt-out.

My only suggestion is to note in your original post that this is a petition to opt-out, and is in no way binding (such as the national do not call registry).

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

Looks like just another junkmail address harvester to me, but I'll try it by way of exhausting my remedies. I don't expect it to stem the flow, though. I'm still behind the aldermen's attempt to get them classed as litter unless somebody opts IN.

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

one time the internet stopped working and i got DESPERATE for a phone book.