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03/03/2009 by Arty

Yellow Pages Recycling?

Spring has sprung (sorry - that will ensure snow next week..) and the new Yellow Pages are being distributed. Can the old ones be put in the green bins? Come to think about it - shouldn't the people who distribute Yellow Pages have a duty of care to take back the old ones - interesting green, or should I say yellow, thought...


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Reply ID 61241

03/03/2009 by Kitty Kat

You can pass them to several local schools who collect them as part of some kind of competition - think Bengeo might be doing it.


Reply ID 61242

03/03/2009 by ~Sarah~

Put it in your green bin, see here: [url]http://www.eastherts.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=1613[/url]


Reply ID 61243

03/03/2009 by shunt

Better still, is there a way of stopping them coming? I don't know about anybody else, but I haven't opened one in years.


Reply ID 61245

03/03/2009 by thefair1973

mine came out of the plastic and in to the recycling. NO idea why the distribute them as widely as they do. It should be an opt-in scheme. I do all my yellow pages searches online rather than dig out the book and search through it.


Reply ID 61258

03/03/2009 by minnie

Hollybush school are collecting them as part of the yellow woods challenge. Last year they came second out of the whole country for the sculpture they made out of them. http://www.yellow-woods.co.uk/pages/teacherstreehouse-ukawards-2009


Reply ID 61286

04/03/2009 by newcomer

quote:
Originally posted by ~Sarah~
Put it in your green bin, see here: [url]http://www.eastherts.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=1613[/url]
It says "Yellow pages - new material", so you might want to check your old ones. It certainly used to be the case that you couldn't recycle them this way.


Reply ID 61289

04/03/2009 by ~Sarah~

quote:
Originally posted by newcomer
quote:
Originally posted by ~Sarah~
Put it in your green bin, see here: [url]http://www.eastherts.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=1613[/url]
It says "Yellow pages - new material", so you might want to check your old ones. It certainly used to be the case that you couldn't recycle them this way.
Yellow Pages from November 2008 onwards it says here [url]http://www.eastherts.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=1613[/url]


Reply ID 61306

04/03/2009 by Sargasso

quote:
Originally posted by shunt
Better still, is there a way of stopping them coming? I don't know about anybody else, but I haven't opened one in years.
Completely agree


Reply ID 61314

04/03/2009 by Woody

quote:
Originally posted by shunt
Better still, is there a way of stopping them coming? I don't know about anybody else, but I haven't opened one in years.
This is in Yellow Pages under "Stopping Unwanted Directories". [:D]


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