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Cancel Yellow Pages

The Yellow Pages are too thick to prop up wobbly tables, but too thin to work as booster seats so most don’t need them. This is especially true since sites like YellowPages.com can get you phone numbers so quickly. The aking of these phone books also use up 19 million trees annually (reminds me of the nasty sales catalog problem).

If you’d like to stop the delivery of these bright bricks of waste, the website YellowPagesGoesGreen.org endeavors to remove your name from the distribution list for phone book delivery services in your area. Click on “Opt-Out,” it takes 2 minutes to register, it won’t cost you anything, and they are gunning for a million requests!

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Charlotte, NC

Parent Volunteer, Sarah Fligel, from Elizabeth Lane Elementary in Charlotte, NC reports that 529 kids in grads 3-5 canceled catalogs for three weeks in December. She wrote, “We canceled 949 catalogs, weighing in at 243 lbs, and 6 feet 2 inches - almost the size a football player!”

Congratulations to the students at Elizabeth Lane Elementary for “tackling” the catalog problem! Bravo!