Just say no!
Posted on June 14, 2006
Filed Under New Zealand |
I just put two massive phone directories in the recycling bin…I mean these things are huge, and it is such a waste. We’ve simply never opened them, and I’ve gotta believe that there’s loads of people out there in the same place…what a collosal waste. This is what the internets were supposed to save us from.
Is it possible to opt out of the annual phone directory drop? Is there a “no phone book” list I can join so that they don’t count me when planning for next years print run? Cause seriously we don’t need these things and it just struck me what a horrendous waste it is.
Someone should start a no phone book list. I’d sign up in a flash.
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I have a friend who works at NZ Post - I’ll ask her about it. I presume they are in charge of phonebook distribution??
Yeah, I’d assume NZ post was responsible for distribution. Problem is I think that Telecom, who owns the Yellow pages biz, has no incentive to reduce the distribution of these things cause the smaller the distribution the less they can charge (or something). It is arse backwards.
Actually, you know what…I’d love to apply some science to this…how many phone books are printed every year? how much pulp does this represent? how many trees get cut down for this? how many people never use them? how much money is wasted printing these?