I can’t take it anymore. Yellow Book deliveries are driving me cray.
If you looked around Beacon Hill today, you’ll see more Yellow Book and Yellow Pages piled up in apartment blg. lobbies or on the doorsteps of buildings, which averages two books per person. How much of a nuisance and waste is this?
According to the nonprofit YellowPagesGoesGreen.org, more than 500 million phone directoriesnearly two books for every Americanare printed and distributed every year in the U.S., taking with them some 19 million trees. Upwards of 1.6 billion pounds of paper are generated to produce the books from these felled trees, while 7.2 million barrels of oil are churned through in creating them (not including the gasoline used for local deliveries). Producing the directories also uses up 3.2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and generates 268,000 cubic yards of solid waste that ends up in landfills (not including the books themselves, many of which eventually end up in landfills in areas where recycling is not available or convenient).
Is this not a total waste of energy and natural resources? Sorry about the outburst. I’ll get back to Boston real estate stats.
