CONTACT INFORMATION:
14 South Fort Harrison Avenue
Clearwater, Fl 33756
Customer Service (727) 464-4000
E-mail: custsrv@pinellascounty.org

June 12, 2009

Clearwater, Fla.— Summertime is phone book time! Thousands of phone books will be delivered to Pinellas County residents’ doorsteps. Please recycle your old phone books instead of trashing them.

The Pinellas County Phone Book Recycling Drive offers many convenient options. Residents of eight cities (Belleair, Clearwater, Dunedin, Largo, Oldsmar, Redington Beach, Safety Harbor, and Seminole) may recycle phone books in their curbside bin with “mixed paper”. There are also 47 drop-off locations available around the county. A complete listing is found at www.pinellascounty.org/utilities/PDF/phone-book-sites.pdf.

Each year, over 500 million telephone books are distributed—enough to circle the earth four times! A common myth is that phone books cannot be recycled, but they are 100% recyclable. Your old phone book can be recycled into insulation, cereal boxes, paper towels, or new phone books.

You can cut waste if you are getting more phone books than you need. At home, you probably don’t need multiple sets of books, which is what you will receive if you have more than one phone line. At the office, co-workers can share phone books instead of receiving individual books. Another option is to use online listings such as www.superpages.com instead of a hard copy. You can sign up to stop receiving phone books at www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org.

For more information, contact Pinellas County Utilities at (727) 464-7500 or visit www.pinellascounty.org/utilities.

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Source: www.pinellascounty.org/utilities

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