Let’s face it. The phone book is a relic of bygone times, when people actually used landlines for more than just modems. Once every home and every phone booth had its White Pages and Yellow Pages. These days just finding a phone booth is hard enough.
But the phone books keep coming. Every so often homeowners wake up to hundreds and hundreds of pages of information that they could easily pull up on their laptops and cell phones. The phone books end up rotting on the curb, until some good phone book Samaritan hauls them off for recycling. More often than not, their handy dandy plastic wrappers end up in the Pacific, adding to the great and growing Garbage Patch in the sea.
This is all about to change. Santa Cruz County’s Public Works Department has been in negotiations with Yellow Pages to find solutions for the phone book conundrum. People can now opt out of receiving them by visiting http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com or calling the following numbers:
Yellowbook: 800-929-3556
Valley Yellow Pages: 800-350-8887
AT&T Yellow Pages: 866-329-7118
In further news, Yellowbook and Valley Yellow Pages have agreed to clean up unwanted books within 72 hours of delivery. While negotiations are still underway with AT&T Yellow Pages, stacks of unwanted phone books may soon go the way of Polaroid shots from high school or your embarrassing collection or Air Supply 8-tracks.
Thank you, internet!
Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
