To save trees, reduce recycling hassles, and quit the clutter, a lone college student has launched Yellow Pages Goes Green, a campaign to eliminate the unsolicited delivery of phone books.

When you receive the yellow and white slabs on your front step, do you:

a)  Plop them in a corner for use as a door stop or high chair?

b)  Test your strength by attempting to tear one in half?

c)  Peruse the pages in search of new friends, baby names, or prank call victims?

d)  Continue construction of your phone directory fortress to keep out unsolicited mail?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, the time has come to remove yourself from the vicious phone book cycle.  And you should probably get out more.  While some people still use phone books for actually looking up numbers, most of us could probably live happily without the old clunkers.

takepart by opting out of receiving phone books and support the movement to eliminate waste and save paper.  It’s free, easy, and who knows what new hobbies you might take up!