Politics & Government
Don't Want the Yellow Pages Anymore? Edmonds Rep. Helps You to Opt Out
Marko Liias is one of three Washington representatives who helped forge an agreement this week between phone-book publishers and Web site.
The Yellow Pages and other telephone books long served a purpose. For many people, they still do.
But for others, who rely on the Internet and other ways of finding out business addresses and phone numbers, the bulky books—which are automatically sent to homes—just aren't relevant anymore.
This week, Rep. Marko Liias (D-Edmonds) was one of three lawmakers who signed off on an agreement with phone book publishers to make it easier to opt out of receiving the books.
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Liias, Joe Fitzgibbon (D-Burien) and Reuven Carlyle (D-Seattle) say that the state’s largest directory publishers will direct consumers to a Web site, www.YellowPagesOptOut.com, a free service.
Participating are Berry, Dex, SuperMedia and YellowBook. They will, in the future, have the Web site URL on the front page of books.
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The opt-out option is not yet available for "white pages" telephone books. According to banthephonebook.org:
An estimated five million trees are cut down each year to create white pages phone books and that according to a recent survey conducted with Harris Interactive, only 22 percent of recipients recycle when disposing of them.