Amy Healy's Profile

It’s good to note the difference between white pages and Yellow Pages. Yellow Pages are used by more than three million small businesses in the U.S. to get customers. In fact, if you're into the "buy local" movement, Yellow Pages are one of the best tools around to find businesses to support in your local community.

If you want to stop delivery of phone books, you can go to www.yellowpagesoptout.com and make your own choice. We don't think that government legislation of information — whether it's printed or online — is good for anyone.

Some of the stats cited in your article are from whitepages.com, a for-profit online directory with a monetary interest in driving customers away from print advertising. The print directory industry has been doing a lot to operate in a sustainable way. Paper suppliers project the industry will use 50% less paper by the end of 2012 than they did in 2007. Directories are printed on paper made from a combination of recycled paper waste and leftover scraps of sawdust and woodchips from lumber production processes whenever available. More than 71% of the paper used in directories, newspapers and similar products is being recycled, according to the EPA.