tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367462055863346506.post4504419500955233378..comments2023-09-13T07:51:43.993-05:00Comments on In My Dreams I Can Talk: Phone Books - RevisitedTrishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01460029556086016004noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367462055863346506.post-50165525130256309662008-05-27T14:40:00.000-05:002008-05-27T14:40:00.000-05:00Ken-Thank you for the clarification. It does make...Ken-<BR/><BR/>Thank you for the clarification. It does make me feel better about all of the unwanted, un-asked for, and un-used phone books that I receive.<BR/><BR/>I still think that ANY distribution of printed material which is unwanted is a waste of paper (I could go on about unwanted junk mail also - but I won't). True, Hubby and I recycle the phone books when we get rid of them but isn't it better to cut the demand in the first place?<BR/><BR/>While I understand that logic for phone books from different companies and applaud them for their money-making and ad-selling skills, how many phone books covering the same geographical area does one person or household honestly need?<BR/><BR/>Isn't this another case of a materialistic society assuming that everyone needs MORE?<BR/><BR/>I would rather the wood chip waste be put to other purposes - book which are bought by people who actually want them and will use them perhaps.Trishahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01460029556086016004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367462055863346506.post-85886741662275486122008-05-27T11:59:00.000-05:002008-05-27T11:59:00.000-05:00While the popular myth is that this industry is re...While the popular myth is that this industry is responsible for the neutering of forests, the reality is the Yellow Pages industry doesn’t knock down any trees for its paper!!! Let me repeat that – they don’t need to cut any trees for their paper supply. Currently, on average, most publishers are using about 40% recycled material (from the newspapers and magazines you are recycling curbside), and the other 60% comes from wood chips and waste products of the lumber industry. If you take a round tree and make square or rectangular lumber from it, you get plenty of chips and other waste. Those by-products make up the other 60% of the raw material needed. Note that these waste products created in lumber milling would normally end up in landfills. Not only that, as wood chips decompose, they emit methane, a greenhouse gas closely associated with global warming. Paper manufacturing thus puts these chips to good use. Many paper providers will also use 5% or less of recycled directories in their paper creation.kenchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01427781235571420790noreply@blogger.com