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The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!

41,172 2,080 July 20, 2016 at 07:44 PM in Sad (3)
Things are going to start happening to me now...

Actually...wtf? seriously, we had a phone book dropped off at our front door today. As in a physical phone book.

So they really do still exist.

And yes, I looked up my name. I'm not in my local phone book; we've lived in this house for 5 years. And we still have a landline (well, through the cable company since it was cheaper to take the home phone service as a bundle than to do without the home phone).
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Frogstar
07-21-2016 at 07:13 AM.
07-21-2016 at 07:13 AM.
I'd found a website that let me opt out of all my local phone book deliveries for three years... when they started showing up after that, I was too unmotivated to find it again. I do keep one around, just in case the internet is down and I have a pizza-ordering emergency or something.
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Majide
07-21-2016 at 07:54 AM.
07-21-2016 at 07:54 AM.
Quote from Zoe Moon :
That's what I used to think too, until I found out years ago that most recycling places can't actually process them, they send them off to a landfill. Can't recall exactly why but it has something to do with the type of paper and/or the binding of the books.
That's disappointing Frown I think we've had at least three phone books dropped off on our front porch in the past month. We keep one, throw the old one and the rest of the new ones in the recycle bin.

I think our recycling center says they can't recycle tissue paper and gift wrap, so I guess it's not surprising if they can't recycle the crappy phone book paper either. Sad though since they send out so many of these!
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07-21-2016 at 08:30 AM.
07-21-2016 at 08:30 AM.
Get a couple regional ones every year, towns more than 70 miles away included (closest Walmart in that town). People close enough to towns/villages can get DSL, only one ISP in most towns, and requires a mandatory landline in any town I know of, so most people have landlines. The books will also list your cell number if you want. Most businesses don't advertise online, some do on the one radio station. It would be very annoying not having a way to look up people/business numbers.

Don't know of any place that recycles within 70 miles. Garbage service, if I would pay for it, comes once a month, they don't recycle.
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redjen910
07-21-2016 at 08:59 AM.
07-21-2016 at 08:59 AM.
Quote from Zoe Moon :
That's what I used to think too, until I found out years ago that most recycling places can't actually process them, they send them off to a landfill. Can't recall exactly why but it has something to do with the type of paper and/or the binding of the books.
Hmm... that's what DH said until we got a listing from the city of recycle-ables. It specifically listed phone books as acceptable.
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VQ better appreciate it. Annoyed
Is this his birthday present???Wink
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teenbean
07-21-2016 at 09:24 AM.
07-21-2016 at 09:24 AM.
Most likely a regional thing but the recycling plant for my area has phone books listed.

ACCEPTABLE ITEMS:
Cardboard & Paperboard
Cereal & Cracker Boxes
Milk, Juice & Soup Cartons
Newspapers & Inserts
Phonebooks & Books
Magazines & Catalogs
Junk Mail & Office Paper
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Kabn
07-21-2016 at 09:59 AM.
07-21-2016 at 09:59 AM.
i got on the list to avoid delivery back in MO after throwing it in the recycle bin a few times (it was an accepted item). got a small one here in OR after i moved (it got the same fate), but haven't seen one since.

i'm not a tree-hugger per se, but it does bother me a bit when i get things like phone books and weekly unsolicited advertisements in the mail; i don't even look at them before throwing them in the recycle bin. so much wasted resources/energy.
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emelvee
07-21-2016 at 10:39 AM.
07-21-2016 at 10:39 AM.
Quote from redjen910 :

Is this his birthday present???Wink
yes. he can't say I forgot. look around
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Beartrkkr
07-21-2016 at 10:46 AM.
07-21-2016 at 10:46 AM.
Quote from emelvee :
Things are going to start happening to me now...

Actually...wtf? seriously, we had a phone book dropped off at our front door today. As in a physical phone book.

So they really do still exist.

And yes, I looked up my name. I'm not in my local phone book; we've lived in this house for 5 years. And we still have a landline (well, through the cable company since it was cheaper to take the home phone service as a bundle than to do without the home phone).
Maybe since you were born a poor black child they're just being racist.


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Majide
07-21-2016 at 11:23 AM.
07-21-2016 at 11:23 AM.
Just checked the website for my city's recycling program, and phone books are listed as accepted items woot
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Zoe Moon
07-21-2016 at 11:34 AM.
07-21-2016 at 11:34 AM.
Quote from redjen910 :
Hmm... that's what DH said until we got a listing from the city of recycle-ables. It specifically listed phone books as acceptable.

Is this his birthday present???Wink
Checking a couple of sites, I got different answers. One said that possible metal and other contaminants in the bindings are hard to remove.

Another site said that the paper used for phone books has very short fibers that can't be used with normal paper, it will contaminate the batch if mixed together but it also said that phone book paper can be recycled into new phone books.
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07-21-2016 at 02:10 PM.
07-21-2016 at 02:10 PM.
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I wondered how long it would take before a Steve Martin Reference would happen.
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07-21-2016 at 02:13 PM.
07-21-2016 at 02:13 PM.
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Maybe since you were born a poor black child they're just being racist.
LMAOLMAO
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07-21-2016 at 02:14 PM.
07-21-2016 at 02:14 PM.
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I wondered how long it would take before a Steve Martin Reference would happen.
You mean besides the one MLV made in the thread title, and in the first post? Scratchchin
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07-21-2016 at 02:17 PM.
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You mean besides the one MLV made in the thread title, and in the first post? Scratchchin
You..... Jerk!

I was implying a video link
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