If you want to recycle your old Yellow Pages directory, given that the recycling box collectors have rejected it, then give it to a schoolkid.
Over the next seven weeks, several local schools will be taking part in the Yellow Woods Challenge, run by Yellow Pages, working with the Woodland Trust and Lancaster City Council, to recycle old Yellow Pages directories and help increase woodland in England – one of the least wooded countries in Europe.
Funds raised through the Yellow Woods Challenge will be invested in the Woodland Trust’s most ambitious children’s tree planting campaign ever launched – ‘Tree For All’ – which aims to plant 12 million trees by 2009.
Youngsters will learn about recycling and woodland conservation through educational materials in the classroom and games on the internet.
The primary schools taking part locally in Lancaster are Moorside, Ryelands and St Bernadettes plus Poulton-le-sands Primary; St Margaret’s, Hornby; St Peter’s, Heysham; St Lukes, Slyne with Hest; Arkholme Primary, Silverdale CE Primary and Carnforth Primary. The competition closes locally on May 25, 2007.
For more information, visit www.yellow-woods.co.uk.
Or if that’s not possible, there are yellow pages recycling banks at Booths and Tesco in Carnforth and Morrisons in Morecambe.
Just to add to this, I ripped up my Yellow Pages, separating cardboard/card elements from the paper, and the Refuse did take it away.