Home Office Answers » green http://www.homeofficeanswers.com Go Green One Change at a Time Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:26:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 No More Walking for My Fingers http://www.homeofficeanswers.com/no-more-walking-for-my-fingers/ http://www.homeofficeanswers.com/no-more-walking-for-my-fingers/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:32:20 +0000 homeoffice http://homeofficeanswers.com/no-more-walking-for-my-fingers/  okay  Do paper phone books keep appearing at your door step uninvited?    I used to take mine right from the door step to the recycling bin mumbling to myself all the way.  Now there is a better way.  If you don’t want your “fingers to do the walking” sign up for this eco-friendly service and STOP receiving paper phone books. 

According to Yellowpagesgoesgreen.org over 500 Million phone directories are printed each year.

The resources needed to produce these books is tremendous

19 million trees need to be harvested 

1.6 billion pounds of paper are wasted

7.2 million barrels of oil are misspent in their processing (not including the wasted gas used for their delivery to your doorstep)

268,000 cubic yards of landfill are taken up

3.2 billion kilowatts of energy are squandered

Yellowpagesgoesgreen.org is an organization working to educate consumers and promote the green movement to eliminate the unsolicited delivery of Yellow and White Pages books. This site is aimed at starting a national movement to solicit the White/Yellow Pages industry to proactively stop the delivery of books or to begin moving legislation to mandate the stoppage of this activity. This movement should be similar to the National No-Call Registry that have stopped and/or decreased the number of unwanted solicitations telephone calls to consumers.

Make your home office eco-friendly green, save some trees and stop receiving unsolicited phone directories.

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