Green Tomorrow

The Yellow Pages should be turned into green Savings! As long as anyone can remember, we received from thick telephone books at least once a year at least form a company. In the big cities, these books are oversized 1500 + pages of information that is easily accessible on the Internet now. The cost to the environment of these directories are devastating. In July 2007, the population of the United States was estimated at 301130947. There were more than 540 million telephone directories delivered in the whole country. That is more than 1.7 per person, and not forget that millions of children, the handicapped, prisoners and the like have no need for these books.

Even some local governments are jumping on the green wagon when it comes to people who accessed the ability to opt out of receiving these books worthless. They are concerned for the overcrowded landfills and the destruction of natural resources that are needed to constantly improve the production of the directories. The average phone book weighs 3.6 pounds. This is heavy – especially when you multiply by 540 million!

Here are some facts regarding unwanted telephone:

The telephone industry in the United States alone generates $ 13.58 billion (with a “B”) a year. Worldwide, the revenues top $ 26 billion.

In the United States alone, the weight of directories annually more than 18 billion 900 million pounds! It takes 24 fully grown trees and 380 litres of oil to produce one ton (2000 pounds) of paper.

same wasted tons of paper that all these trees and oil take up to 3 cubic metres of landfill space.

The planet of the water supply is consistently increasingly polluted and less rich. It takes more than 7000 litres of water to produce one tonne of paper.

4000 kilowatts of energy needed to produce a ton of paper.

Can you not see that is far past time to stop this madness? We, as individual residents of this planet, have to stand up and demand change. The government will never occur without our dedicated pressure. The directory companies will not voluntarily abandon their multi-billion dollar industry. Why should we continue to allow the exploitation and destruction of our forests, wetlands, rivers, lakes and streams simply so that we can continue to receive voluminous, worthless directories that nobody uses anyway?

There is great news! There is a website called YellowPagesGoesGreen.org that offers a free and revolutionary service to opt out of receiving telephone directories. It's easy to use, just a minute; helps save the world; proactivity governmental influences the direction of responsibility for the environment and make you feel great for a green component of positive world change! You just sign up and they contact the phone companies to choose you from their mailing lists for telephone directories. There is nothing more to it than that.

Why should millions of people continue to have telephone directories wasteful against their door steps each year (several times), when they do not even use the books? Of course, they should not. The only advantages seen by the supply of these directories is considered useless by the telephone companies that generate billions of dollars of profits from them. It is time to become pro-active!

Join us to stop the madness today. Visit YellowPagesGoesGreen.org today and opt out of our limited wastage of natural resources!