Phonebooks

Yep, it is that time of year again…time for a quick rant about phonebooks. We had ours delivered the other day (all 4.6kgs of them) and I put them in the recycling today.

According to the 2006 census there are 2,724 occupied dwellings in our suburb (Kohimarama), which means approximately 12,530kg of phonebooks (not counting all the businesses).

Let’s imagine that 20% of those households could do without their dead tree versions of the phonebook… we could save 2.5 metric tonnes of printed paper in Kohi alone!

I know that they use recycled paper in the production but even if that is 60% or so we’re talking tonnes of institutionalized waste. Not to mention the waste of resources printing the things, and the solvents in the inks, blah blah blah…

For the love of God’s green planet please let me atleast opt out of receiving the bloody things. I don’t want them.

Photo by jonobacon.