Recycle Your Phone Books

Phone Book Recycling

From February 1 through March 15, phone books will be accepted at all 11 Collection and Recycling Centers in Lexington County for recycling. For additional locations, visit the Keep the Midlands Beautiful website at:

www.keepthemidlandsbeautiful.com

Did you know?

The EPA estimates that 650,000 tons of phonebooks are delivered annually to 100 million households in the United States. Producing those 650,000 tons of phone books uses 11.6 billion gallons of water and sends 1,650,880 tons of Carbon Dioxide into the air (CO2 is a greenhouse gas and contributes to global wa…rming). The EPA estimates that only 18% of the phone books that are discarded in the United States each year are recycled. That leaves 533,000 tons to take up 1,758,900 cubic yards of landfill space.

February 12, 2010   Posted in: Public Events