Phone book recycling: Politically Correct but environmentally wrong

"Recycling centers accept phone books
10/30/2007

Arcata Community Recycling Center is encouraging Humboldt County residents to recycle old or unwanted phone books, according to an ACRC news release.

Outdated phone books can be recycled into new phone book pages, paper towels, toilet paper, household insulation, mulch, drywall, roofing shingles and more."


This is out-of-date environmental information. Paper products should be landfilled and not recycled in order to get more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Grow more trees, use more wood, and make and use more paper! The more wood and paper products are recycled back into the earth the more carbon dioxide is taken out of the sky.