Customer Street Improvements

Last week I arrived home from CustomerStreet.com to my apartment block to find that we had had a delivery of about 10 kilos of printed and bound paper in plastic wrappers. This huge block of yellow wrapped ink and paper will sit in our hallway for the next six months until the the slightly smaller block of blue wrapped paper and plastic arrives and the the yellow pile is thrown out. In my town you can see this doorstop directories littering the streets.

It struck me that the printed directories whilst trying to minimise their environmental impact still must have a massive impact. The energy involved in producing the paper, printing, glueing, wrapping and distributing their product must be immense. Crunchy Domestic Goddess in her blog recognises the environmental impact printed directories and the fact that on-line directories are readily available on-line.

Stop Yellow - I couldn’t find any information on the Yellow Pages web site about stopping getting copies of their printed directory. In desperation I rang their order line on 0800 671 444 and they took my details to stop delivery. Interestingly this number can also be used to find our where you can take your old directory for recycling.

Stop Blue - If you want to stop the smaller Thomson directory - you can’t. They can only request that the distribution company does not deliver there. Their number is 01252 555 555.

Stop White - British Telecom the other major distributor of printed telephone directories let you remove your details by ringing 0800 833400 option 5 then 1.

Ultimately the best environmental option would be to make these businesses have an opt in to receive directories. You can click the button below to sign the Yellow Pages Paperless Petition and Official Opt-Out Registry (includes Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and the United States):

As an on-line directory we don’t have the environmental impact of the print directories. Remember you have a choice, choose not to receive the paper directories search green, search CustomerStreet.com directories UFindUs.com, SmileLocal.com, MoreUK.com to find the products and services you want today. You can also type in what you are looking for in Google and you will find one our directories, one of the sites we build for our customers or one of our trade specific portals.

Search green, search Customer Street.

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