Big fat yellow books on the stoop
By adamg - Tue, 01/22/2008 - 10:29am.
Kisrael observes:
... Few apartment dwellers seem to want one in this era of easy search engine lookups, and then no one wants responsibility for throwing them out or finding out how they can be recycled or whatever, so they sit forlorn in their protective plastic bags for months. ...
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Can something be done?
I hate the idea of the city paying for either trashing or recycling nearly every single Yellow Book that gets dropped off. Can the manufacturer be fined or otherwise made to pay for the cleanup?
Like most of the Yellow-Book ignoring folk, I looked in the book once and found it thoroughly useless, so now I don't bother bringing it into my home.
Funny Little Story
When we made our most recent move some eight years ago, from one apartment in Watertown to another, we were delivered a local Watertown directory, but no Boston. MY WIFE called to request a Boston directory.
We received a Boston directory the next day. Excellent!
Then we received one the day after that. And another one the day after that. And so on. We ended up with 14 Boston directories before they stopped coming.
MY WIFE had called to stop them upon delivery of the third or fourth one. Their suggestion at that time, as concerns disposal of the extras? They suggested that we might go around to all of our neighbors and ask them if they'd like one. Uh, gee, no.
We finally threw 'em all into a hefty and put them out with the rubbish, of course. Sad to have contributed that much crap to a landfill, but there was little else to do. Watertown did not accept those books in recycling at the time, as I recall, and we sure weren't going to take up space in the house with them.
Suldog
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Ugly, ugly phone books
I hate them. They should be fined for trashing the city. We got 3 bags of them when we first moved into a single family--they just want to get rid of them so they threw three on our steps for me to throw out. I dunno--should we call the mayor or something?
Yellow Books
For a week or so, the Herald ran big ads in the Classifieds for people to make extra money by distributing these books. I imagine the folks who took them up on this offer weren't motivated by anything else than splaying them all over the landscape so they could get paid. Hey, it's better than the "Three Step Plan"!