A North End resident files a complaint:
Stacks of yellow book phone directories are lying everywhere, dozens and dozens of yellow books left on doorsteps and sidewalks, how is this not littering?
Poll: We got two different phone books yesterday - which to toss in the recycling?
The Cambridge City Council today considers establishing a local opt-out program for residents who no longer let their fingers do the walking.
Councilors Marjorie Decker and Leland Cheung say phone books created "a tremendous amount of waste" and force the city to dispose and recycle them in "an age when the Internet is a more highly used method of information." Their proposed order instructs the city manager to look at the feasibility of a system for letting residents indicate they no longer want the weighty tomes.
Penny Cherubino reports they're baaack: The thousands upon thousands of Yellow Book directories that just sit there, moldering and falling apart, their pages despoiling the streets (in her case, in the Back Bay).
John Ford declares:
... I can't take it anymore. Yellow Book deliveries are driving me crazy.
If you looked around Beacon Hill today, you'll see more Yellow Book and Yellow Pages piled up in apartment blg. lobbies or on the doorsteps of buildings, which averages two books per person. How much of a nuisance and waste is this? ...
Earlier:
No love for Yellow Book in Cleveland Circle, either.
Or anywhere else, that we can tell.
Martin Lieberman reports:
Yesterday, as I was leaving my apartment, I noticed that Yellowbook had dropped off the 2009 phone books. Do you know how many they left us? Sixteen. Do you know how many people live in my building? Exactly six. Any moron with a pair of eyes could see that there are only six mailboxes here, and the phone books are all stacked up right underneath them. And now it's a day and a half later, and all 16 are still there, untouched. ...
Ed Yellowbook note: I'm grateful Boston lets you recycle phonebooks, because our Yellowbook never even made it in the house - it went straight from porch to blue bin.
The Globe finally weighs in on a topic very familiar to UHub readers: the wasteful free distribution of 4-pound phone books, by two competing companies.
Jason posts a video that reminds us how truly creative college students can be and reports that the Globe is doing a story on the whole Yellow Book earth-crushing controversy:
It would be nice for this issue to gather some more steam and become a topic of discussion for City Hall.
Jason dodges tons of Yellow Books:
When I came home on Friday, I discovered that my street had been attacked by Yellow Book. ...
With photos showing just how bad it is.
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. ...
Lori Magno wishes Yellow Book would leave her alone:
... You suck. Specifically the idiots who deliver your books suck. This kind of asshattery must stop. Leave me alone Yellow Book. I can't remember the last time I touched any phone book other than my little town directory. ...
As long as she's ranting, she also explains why the Macy's in Downtown Crossing sucks.
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