My website is finally out from under that black cloud. Following is a post that you may have missed while we were offline.
Recycling can be so sexy. Creator Jolis Paons pleated, sewed and glued this entire dress by hand.
Two huge, thick, heavy phonebooks were waiting for me at my front door last week. Normally, I drag them into the house, trash the old books (recycling isn’t available in my area at the moment) and replace them with the new ones. I don’t believe I’ve used my phone-books for the past four or five years, and I bet loads of other people haven’t either. How many wasted trees do these unwanted volumes represent, I wonder?
Creating a dress is a novel idea, but I had to ask myself, why do I receive these books year after year. I don’t want them. With the advent of the Internet, these books became obsolete.
A better idea would be to mail all area occupants a postcard asking whether they wish to continue receiving the phone-books. It would cut down on an immense amount of waste and save a lot of trees.
In Canada newsprint and phone books are all placed in the same bin at the collection point and yes they get recycled,once in the blender at the paper mill they get remade into post consumer box board product…Blackberry Bold Case
It’s good to hear. I wish other countries would get on board with a phone book program–mine included.
Easy way to stop getting The Talking Phone Book delivered to your casa. It takes about 3 minutes, so it’s a very easy way to save lots of paper, ink, and gas
It will be great if we save like this. collector bin is really a nice idea in order to save nature .
It’s the people who pay to advertise in the phone books that keeps them in business.
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