Lessening Our Environmental Impact

For over a decade, the Yellow Pages industry has worked tirelessly to reduce our carbon footprint and deliver products that are more environmentally sustainable.

This Web site will give you a glimpse into the progress we’ve made.  We look forward to sharing more as we discover more innovative ways to help protect our environment while still providing our much needed services to consumers and businesses.

We found a way to make our ink safer.

Due to more than a decade of close collaboration between Yellow Pages publishers and paper suppliers, directory components now include soy-based rather than petroleum-based inks and nontoxic dyes that pose no threat to soil or groundwater supplies.

Trees are not harvested to make directory paper.

We give a lot of props to the paper industry. It has spent millions to refine the way we make paper. 

Yellow Pages publishers use paper containing high levels (40%) of recycled content. In addition to recycled pulp, directory paper contains fiber primarily derived from "residual chips," a byproduct of sawmills left after logs are converted to lumber. The chips become paper pulp instead of going into landfills or being burned.

Publishers have also cut the amount of paper used in each book by 11 percent in the past five years, from 22.5 pounds per book to as low as 18 pounds.