Say No to the Phonebook

For the folks in the UK, 192.com is a new campaign aimed at opting out of getting a new phonebook. Residents currently get three new phonebooks each year, which is 75,000 tons of paper each year.

If you need a phonebook, then go ahead and get your book, but with the ease and universality of the internet many people find they never use a physical phonebook, but would rather use a virtual phonebook. People are also finding that the phonebook is out of date too quickly and its too difficult to recycle phonebooks, so citizens would rather not have the burden.

To get involved, go to www.saynotophonebooks.com

More PHacts on PHonebooks:

Phonebooks typically have less than 100,000 local records: online directory enquiries search over 17.5 million phone records across the UK
Online data can be updated on a daily basis, phonebook data can only be updated on an annual basis
Laid end to end they would stretch over half way around the world (22,500km)
680,000 barrels of oil wasted in phonebook production (not including the wasted petrol used for their delivery to your doorstep)
2 billion litres of water is used in the production process (not to mention the amount of water wasted in the recycling process)
437 million kilowatts of energy used in the production process (again not mentioning that used in the recycling process)this equates to enough energy being produced to power 112,000 3 bedroom houses for a year