phonebooks to the dump?
Don’t think you can throw that phonebook curbside! It will NOT get picked up because the poor quality paper makes it impossible to recycle as new paper.
Instead, your phonebook will become insulation materials. Hey, better that than having our hundreds of thousands of phonebooks in Raleigh (and the Triangle at large) act as anchors at the already filling dump.
I was saddened yesterday when I drove to Jaycee Park on Wade Ave to discover they no longer have phonebook bins (it wasn’t a wasted trip ~ I had paperboard galore to recycle as well, plus groceries from Wholefoods).
After a bit of digging on the WakeGOV website, I found NOTHING for currently recycling your phonebooks except that the North Wake Landfill and South Wake Landfill both have recycling drop-offs also. The rest of the locations listed are out-of-date as of MAY 2007! What?!
Does that mean I have to make a special 30 minute drive to the nearest landfill or cart three phonebooks in my floorboard for the next few months?! Preposterous!
I’m glad I spend time in Durham. At least Durham has phonebook drop-off locations!
