New Telephone Directories

dod

A copy of the 2004 release of the Golden Pages and standard blue Phone books has just arrived here.

Since most households will likely be dumping their old copies of these substantial tomes, do you think the distributors are making any arrangements for central collection points in some effort to recycle what must collectively total to an awfully large amount of paper?

Victor

Just green bin them. Creating a separate collection system would be too wasteful. Of course if they could collect while delivering ....

Eurorunner

Well, in many other countries, they also make cd-rom versions available..dont suppose they do that here?

Clearly this would go some way towards reducing costs and - to some extent - environmental impact

Victor

Originally posted by Eurorunner
Well, in many other countries, they also make cd-rom versions available..dont suppose they do that here?

they cost about €20 - you can't get a white pages version though - Data Protection Act.

Typedef

I think a cd would be even more costly to recycle then paper.

Keeks

Originally posted by Typedef
I think a cd would be even more costly to recycle then paper.

The question shouldn't where costs more to recycled, but which benefits the envionment better over its lifetime?

Typedef

Debatable.

I'd say that the less something costs to be recycled, the more likely it is to be recycled.