8 phonebooks in 6 months!

hooklahoma

hooklahoma

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Why the hell do people insist on dumping these things in my driveway and why is it not considered littering ? I havent even used a phone book in the 10 years since broadband became available.


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This is a completely valid point and one that pisses me off every time one of those things is left on my doorstep.

Why does every environmental debate have to be about the individual consumers? Why isn't the pressure being placed up higher? Like the companies that print those pieces of ****, or the credit card companies that send billions of unsolicited junk mail offers, or the computer companies that package every system with a new monitor, keyboard, mouse and jam it all into 18 pounds of packaging?

If someone wants a phone book, they can go pick one up. If I want a credit card, I know who to call or go to online. If I want to upgrade my computer, I should be able to upgrade it with a new processor without having to buy a new tower, OS, monitor.

The focus on environmental awareness in this country is severely misguided.
 
O&W has great points. I don't think that the consumer side of environmetal-ism (or whatever word you wanna use) should be ignored, but there are many wasteful practices on the business side.

Junk mail is a prime example. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 40% of solid waste in America is paper or paper products. About half of that is stuff like junk mail that was never read and promptly thrown out. Not to mention it's just really annoying. Sad that a company would gladly see a forest leveled, then print off a few tons of paper that's going to wind up in a landfill anyway, and annoy the crap out of everyone whose mailbox they fill only so about 1% of the people that get the junk mail buy a product. Some people will do a lot for a few bucks.
 
The broken computer line is not as valid as you make it out to be. One of the top sellers of computers in the nation seems to think it can be done.

Laptop in a bag

As to the second comment, I know that I can personally upgrade my own computer parts individually, but I also know that 99% of the population can't. My point wasn't that it is completely impossible to upgrade your computer in a piecemeal fashion as much as it was about the fact that a vast majority of computers sold are sold as an entire package simply because that is how the main players in the market want you to buy them.

I'm not saying that individual consumers should be given a free pass to not consider the environmental aspects and they should pitch in when/where they can. I am simply saying that the focus should be on a much grander scale if anyone really wants to accomplish anything.

But then again, it's a lot easier to preach to me to me about using a recycled bag than it is to get a fortune 500 company to change their practices.
 
In my last neighborhood, I called the AAS more than once over a similar practice. I apparently lived in a neighborhood where sponsors were quick to buy a newspaper for a day AND a test neighborhood for the spanish paper they tried putting out for awhile.

At least 3x a week for over a month I was either getting a spanish paper which I couldn't read or the AAS which I refuse to read. Each time it went right into the trash can and really pissed me off because of the wastefulness of it all.

Those phone books go right in the trash too, but I only get those a couple times a year so I never though about those.

That **** really pisses me off.
 
I used to think I got one from Bell b/c I have SBC (now AT&T) but now I have TWC and I get one from Bell, from Verizon, and another one that doesnn't come to mind right now.

They need to outlaw these books. Perhaps Palin can help with this.
 
The phonebooks that show up on my doorstep go right into the recycling container along with the shredded junk mail. I do have a serious issue with the time I waste shredding junk mail.
 
it stuns me that they still print them.

What are people going to do if they dont print the white pages?

I can udnerstand the yellow pages becasue they make money off them?
 
This is quckly becoming one of my pet peeves. From where I am sitting now, I see 3 phone books that are going in the recycling bucket when I go out this afternoon. I think there are a couple more in the kitchen.

I want ONE white pages and ONE yellow pages and that's all!
 
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