Phone Book Recycling
February was “Phone Book Recycling Month in Metro Schools,” sponsored by Public Works, Metro Beautification and AT&T Real Yellow Pages as a way to promote recycling in Davidson County. A highlight of the campaign was a contest to see which schools in Metro can recycle the most 2006 “Real White Pages” and other outdated telephone directories.
Over 27,000 phone books were collected during the phone book recycling drive!
Winners
High School
1st Place - Hillsboro High School ($500 prize)
Middle School
1st Place - Croft Middle School ($500 prize) 2nd Place - Dupont-Hadley Middle School ($300 prize)
Croft Students with a hallway
full of phone books.
Elementary School Granbery Students
& their pile of phone books
1st Place - Granbery Elementary School ($500 prize)
2nd Place - Joelton Elementary School ($300
prize)
Honorable Mention - Cockrill Elementary School
($125 prize)
Honorable Mention - Lakeview Design Elementary School ($100
prize)
Veronica Frazier, (center) Executive Director of Metro Beautification & Environment Commission, presenting the award and check to Granbery elementary School Principal Lori Donahue (right) and staff member Sherry Force (left). Granbery's final total was 8,488 phone books!
A family delivers a truck load
of
phone books to the Bellevue
drop off.
DID YOU KNOW?
- One ton of recycled phone books saves 17 trees, 3,700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water;
- AT&T Real Yellow Pages and telephone directories are 100% recyclable;
- Paper egg cartons, envelopes, roofing felt and animal bedding are some of the products made from recycled phone books.
- The first phone book was issued in New Haven, CT on February 21, 1878.