Once a year on a nice sunny day, you pull up to your house and there is a yellow cellophane bag sitting on your porch with the annual telephone directories inside of it. You sigh. You take it in to your house or apartment and figure out where to put it, never knowing if you will ever actually use it. It collects dust and you usually throw it out in 3 months after you see it wedged in the pantry or under your bed. Sound familiar? You are not alone.
In this computer and tech savvy world, most people generally don't think to use their phone books anymore as their first source of information. At work or at home, many people will check a telephone number or address through their computer or even more likely, their high tech gadget (does this thing even make a phone call anymore?) cell phone.
Plus, these phone books use trees to produce. A LOT of trees. According to banthephonebook.org, the production of phone books cut down up to 5 million trees each year. That's a lot of trees to make someone's makeshift coffee table. Not to mention other costs to taxpayers like added recycling efforts and the financial impact of printing and delivering these bulky information books to your front door or office.
