Recycle Your Phone Books to Feed Hungry

by 01/11/08 2 Comments

GoErie.com features information about how recycling phone books in Northern Pennsylvania can not only create new insulation, but proceeds will benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Erie Energy Products is donating one cent per pound recycled to the food bank, which has been recycling phone books in Erie for 13 years. The project takes place thanks to a $5,000 grant from Idearc Media, and allows phone books to be recycled at 10 locations through January 31.

Nationally, about 18 percent of phone books are recycled every year. In addition to creating insulation, recycling phone books leads to new phone books made from recycled content.

For more information, visit Earth 911′s Paper Recycling page. To find out how to recycle your old phone book, use the recycling locator search at the top of this page.

Trey Granger

Trey Granger

Trey Granger is a staff member at Earth911.com.


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  1. adrian2514

    posted on January 11th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    Does anybody know about this site ( http://www.earthlab.com ) ? I have seen other environmental sites with carbon calculators like yahoo and tree huggers, but I am wondering what the deal with earthlab.com is? I saw they also published a list last month of the top ten greenest cities ( http://www.efficientenergy.org/Top-Ten-Green-Cities-in-the-United-States ). Does anyone know if this site is better than the others? Fill me in!

    I took their carbon foot print test and it was pretty interesting, they said that I put out 4.5 tons of carbon, does anyone know about any other tests?

  2. cheritycall

    posted on October 27th, 2008 at 3:08 am

    hi, Give something to help those hungry people from Africa or India,
    I made this blog about this subject:
    on http://tinyurl.com/556poc

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