World Report about Phonebook,Trees and What We Can Do

It seems that all you hear lately in the World report is economic stimulus. Good news, according to the National Arbor Day Foundation - Trees can be a stimulus to economic development, attracting new business and tourism. Commercial retail areas are more attractive to shoppers, apartments rent more quickly, tenants stay longer, and space in a wooded setting is more valuable to sell or rent.

Forty trees remove 80 pounds of air pollutants annually.

Trees can keep us cooler in the summer and save us ten million dollars a year in energy costs. Trees also clean up air pollutants and save us millions in air pollution cleanup. Trees also can also save us millions of dollars annually in storm water runoff costs; four hundred trees can capture as much as 140,000 gallons of rainwater each year.

USDA Forest Service states, the planting of trees means improved water quality, resulting in less runoff and erosion. This allows more recharging of the ground water supply. Wooded areas help prevent the transport of sediment and chemicals into streams.

Here is an alarming statistic.

We are harvesting 24 million metric tons of trees for paper production each Year. My sources tell me, the average tree weighs 680 kg, or 0.68 tons. So this means that an estimated 16.32 million trees are destroyed for paper manufacturing in the US each year.

One of the largest wasteful paper products is the phonebook. It is reported that the Manhattan directory alone passed the one million mark in 1921. Within five years, it grew six fold again and required a group of 500 deliverymen, more than 500 rail-car loads of paper, and 100 tons of binding glue. And that's just in one city.

A company in Portland Oregon produces telephone directories that tipped the scales at 10.5 pounds per pair, used up the equivalent of 49,779 trees, and could be stacked nearly 12 miles high into the sky. And that's just one of many phone books that Portlanders receive. On a nation wide, the figures become astronomical. If we assign the not-terribly-scientific figure of just more than three pounds to the average directory, then the 615 million volumes produced last year come out to 1 million tons of directories.

Some information show that phonebooks and yellowpages make up almost ten percent of Paper waste at garbage dumps.

The impact would be Phenomenal if we all stopped receiving telephone books and yellow pages.

What? Stop using the yellow pages! How am I suppose to find a number or address to my barber or beauty salon? Don't worry, in today’s high tech, internet environment there is a greener solution. I have discovered an ecologically helpful and user friendly online search directory called planetbuzz.com. With over twenty million business listings and growing every day planetbuzz.com is by all means the best interactive search directory online.

If you are like Me, worried about our economy and our environment, one way to help is to stop using and opt-out from receiving old out-dated and environmentally unfriendly yellow pages.

For information on how opt-out from receiving the phone book and yellow pages call:

AT&T/Yellow Pages (formerly SBC and Bell South): 1.800.792.2665

Verizon (Idearc): 1.800.888.8448

Dex: 1.877.243.8339

Yellow Book: 1.800.373.3280 or 1.800.373.2324

To fine the best search directory on the Internet simply go to planetbuzz.com

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SEO, marketing manager Michael Walrath give extra attention to Planet Buzz Search directory. Beveling that we all need to do our part to help save our planet Earth.

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