“As an industry, we absolutely support consumer choice. She said companies are working to stop making unwanted deliveries. Through it’s “Select Your Dex” program, people can limit which directories and promotional mail items they receive.Īmy Healy, a representative of the Yellow Pages Association, told The Seattle Times the industry recognizes some people don’t use phone books. Phone book companies like Dex already allow individuals to sign up online to stop or restrict their phone book deliveries. This option would cost about about $30,500 next year, according to Seattle Public Utilities. The city website would link to Catalogue Choice, where residents could sign up to discontinue phone book deliveries. The council is considering contracting with Catalogue Choice, a nonprofit group, to help people get out of receiving an annual phone book. “We see it as a no-tresspasing sign for phone book companies.”
“Were are making sure we know what the city of Seattle wants on this, which is ultimately a chance to opt-in,” said Justin Rolfe-Redding, of Zero Waste.
Only residents who sign up for phone books should receive them, Zero Waste Seattle says, and members said most people who stopped by the group's booth at the Fremont Fair last weekend agreed. “We don't use, we go online to find what we need,” said college student and ballard resident Ursula Sandstrom.
Seattle added 2, 231 tons of phone books into the recycling stream in 2005. Members of Zero Waste Seattle, a nonprofit group spearheading the effort, testified that in today's digital age most people no longer use a phone book to find a business’ contact information.ĭirectories and phone books pile up, untouched outside apartment complexes and homes, Zero Waste said. Members of the city council at a Public Utilities and Neighborhood Committee hearing Tuesday showed interest in exploring different options to cut back on the delivery of phone books to homes that don’t use them. Seattle could become the first major city in the nation to stop the yearly delivery of phone books to residents.
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