How annoyed do you get when yet another yellow paged directory is sitting in your driveway? Most recipients simply throw the book into the trash (hopefully the recycle bin) without even glancing at it or placing it in their homes.

We recently came across the site www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org So, we tweeted about the site and guess what? It was one of our highest clicked tweets! People want to opt out from receiving the yellow pages!

Did you know that over 500 million yellow/white paged books are printed each year? According to Yellowpagesgoesgreen.org:

To produce 500 million books:

• 19 million trees need to be harvested
• 1.6 billion pounds of paper are wasted
• 7.2 million barrels of oil are misspent in their processing (not including the wasted gas used for their delivery to your doorstep)
• 268,000 cubic yards of landfill are taken up
• 3.2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity are squandered

www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org allows you to request not to receive the yellow and/or white pages. The organization is not related to the yellow page company. Once signed up, Yellow Pages Goes Green will contact the publishers on your behalf and request that you be removed.

Be green & click here for more information!

UPDATE: We recently received a tweet with this url to officially opt out with the yellow page company www.yellowpagesoptout.com