Many Opt Out Of Seattle Phone Books

A Seattle City Council briefing Tuesday on Seattle’s new yellow-pages opt-out program showed that the number of canceled phone books in Seattle continues to rise, with an increasing number of people rejecting the thick paper directories . Dick Lilly, a manager with Seattle Public Utilities, said 16,874 households have opted out of nearly 105,000 phone book deliveries since Seattle launched its opt-out program last Thursday . Using a formula of five books weighing 7.5 pounds, the city estimated the opt-outs equals (nearly) 80 tons of avoided paper waste. “I don’t know how many trees that would be,” Lilly said/ Vanessa Ho , Seattle P-I Strange Bedfellows. More here.

Question: Which of the several phone books do you use? And/or: Should there be a law against delivery of too many phone books?