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Human&earth presents
Reducing PHONE BOOKS in FORT COLLINS, COLORADO and the World!!!!
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First a little about Fort Collins, Colorado in 2005
Population 128,026
Households 45,822
Businesses 6,000
(source United States Census Bureau)
If you use a phone book, that is ok but do you use all 4 that are delivered here??
OVER 600,000 PHONE BOOKS are delivered in Fort Collins each year.
Names&Numbers 135,000 large books 15,000 small books
(Source; Chuck With Name and Numbers 1-800-592-7625)
Qwest Dex 150,000 Fort Collins books
150,000 Northern Colorado books
Unknown small books
(Source; Scott Crook District sales manager)
Yellow book 150,000 large books
(Source Mike 1-800-YB-Yellow)
THAT MEANS....
600,000 phone books /(45,882households+6,000 business)= 11 phone books per house and business!!!! Only receive 4 phone books each year on your doorstep how is it 11??
Businesses receive large pallets worth of phone books as do grocery stores, city chamber
of commerce, post offices, government building and schools, and more. It is called heavy distribution to make
sure that there will always be products there for someone.
Also, after each change of Address, Qwest Dex will deliver a new phone book and they
estimate there are 10,000 people who change their address each year.
(source Scott Crook District sales Manager for Qwestdex)
Weighing in the cost.  Names&numbers 135,000 X 2.4 lbs=324,000 pounds
15,000 X .8 lbs = 12,000 pounds
Yellow book 150,000 X 2.8 lbs =420,000 pounds Qwest Dex Northern 150,000 X 1.8lbs =270,000 pounds Qwest Dex Fort Collins 150,000 X 3.4lbs = 510,000 poundsFORT COLLINS IS "GIVEN" over 1,536,000 pounds of phone books per year.I weigh 190 pounds so that means 8,084.2 Rob's are shipped to Fort Collins....and I thought I was one in a million.  Resources for the phone booksFor every 500 phone books printed 17-31 trees are used 7,000 gallons of water is used 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space is used 4,077 Kwh of energy is use (source Earth911)
So that means FORT COLLINS with over 600,000 phone books USES....... 20,400-37,200 trees each year
8,400,000 gallons of water 3,672 cubic yards of landfill space is used
4,892,400 Kwh of Energy is used State
of Colorado receives an estimated:
600,000phonebooks
X phone books
= 26,162,160.9 phonebooks for Colorado 128,000 Fort Collins people 4,301,261 Colorado People
26,162,160.9
/ 500 = 52,324.32
52,324.32
x 17-31 = 889,513 trees to 1,622,053.22 trees 52,324.32
x 7,000 =366,270,240 gallons of water 52,324.32
x 3.06 = 160,112.419 cubic yards of landfill space 52,324.32
x 4,077 =213,326,253 Kwh of energy use
AND WHAT ABOUT U.S.A Over 540 million phone books are printed each year 7.2 million barrels of drinking water each year 19 million trees are used each year 3.2 billion kilowatt hours of energy each year. (source eco yellow pages)
Talking in Bathtubs;
The average Bathtub Can hold 40-60 gallons of water.
168,000 bathtubs of water for Fort Collins phone books.
5,760,000 Bathtubs of water to make pulp paper for phone books for U.S.A.
BLINDED BY MONEY????????
Helen Cotheran wrote;
Risk analysis looks at two major factors:
a.) The degree of risk and b.)its size or magnitude.
A situation with a high degree of risk and a high level of magnitude is obviously a major concern. A situation with
a low level of risk and a low magnitude is just the opposite, and a
problem with high risk and low magnitude also falls in this "not to
worry" category. It's the last of the four possible scenarios that
concerns us; low risk and high magnitude. Most business people tend to
shrug off huge environmental concerns because they feel that the risk
is low or that it has not yet been demonstrated to be high enough in
their minds to warrant attention. And therein lies the problem.
(source) Garbage and Recycling Helen Cotheran page 73
$$$$$$WHO PAYS FOR PHONE BOOKS????$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Business owners
Business owners MUST compete against each other in a high pressure silent
auction. The winner gets listed first in the phone book. The loser
gets listed last.
An estimated 1.1 million dollars is spent from Fort Collins Business owners and large corporate chains.An add that is on the outside of the cover in Fort Collins goes for about 30,000 dollars  YOU, the tax payer, pays for Phone booksQuebecor is a company headquarters in Canada. Quebecor
has a print shop in Loveland, Colorado that services to 14 different
states. They requested and received a loan from the U.S. government
for 1 billion dollars....After receiving the loan, they filled chapter
11 bankruptcy.
I was going to put a link to their news letter on the topic of their
loan.....but they have seem to have taken it down......GOOD THING I
COPIED IT BEFORE!!!
1/23/2008 Quebecor World Receives U.S. Court Approval of $1 Billion Financing Plan
Montréal, Canada – Quebecor World Inc. (IQW:
TSX) today received the initial United States court orders it sought as
part of its court supervised reorganization and protection. United
States Judge James Peck today provided the final authorization needed
for Quebecor World Inc. to borrow up to $750 million under the terms of
the credit facility from Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. Together
with the approval of this loan by the Quebec Superior Court earlier
this week, today’s approval clears the way for Quebecor World to obtain
the cash infusion, the first part of a $1 billion in new financing. The
proceeds of the financing will be used to fund its operations as the
Company reorganizes under the protection of the courts in the United
States and Canada. The Court also granted a series of other requests from Quebecor
World’s subsidiaries in the United States. Among other things, the
Court authorized the Company to continue to honor its ongoing
obligations to its employees and to honor all commitments to the
Company’s customers so as to ensure that customers receive the same
high level of service they depend upon to meet their advertising and
publishing needs. Forward looking statements
This press
release may include “forward-looking statements” that involve risks and
uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts
included in this press release, including statements regarding the
prospects of the industry and prospects, plans, financial position and
business strategy of Quebecor World Inc. (the “Company”), may
constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S.
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian
securities legislation and regulations. Forward-looking statements
generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology
such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “intend,” “estimate,” “anticipate,”
“plan,” “foresee,” “believe” or “continue” or the negatives of these
terms or variations of them or similar terminology. Although the
Company believes that the expectations reflected in these
forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance
that these expectations will prove to have been correct.
Forward-looking statements do not take into account the effect that
transactions or non-recurring or other special items announced or
occurring after the statements are made have on the Company’s business.
For example, they do not include the effect of dispositions,
acquisitions, other business transactions, asset writedowns or other
charges announced or occurring after forward-looking statements are
made. Investors and others are cautioned that undue reliance should
Chapter 11 Quebecor... well they sold all their possessions to their new name World Color News center..
Qwest Dex owned by R.H. Donnelley also filled Chapter 11 bankruptcy with 500 million in Debt.Here is the article from MarketwatchBankrupt rh donnelley
EARTH, THE PLANET, PAYS FOR PHONE BOOKS
TRASH A PHONE BOOK??
In less than 19 years, Larimer County land fill will be FULL the plans after it is full is unknown at this time.
"Less than 25% of all phone books are recycled. That is our figures (Qwest Dex) and the city of Fort Collins figures."
-Michelle Kincheloe, Dex Recycling & Environmental Marketing R.H. Donnelley
Well if less than 25% of the phone books are being shipped off to be recycled that means.....
1,152,000 pounds of phone books are being placed in the Fort Collins landfill.
450,000 phone books are going to the landfill which will take up 2,754 cubic yards of landfill.
The phone books are in the landfill. An amazing expert in solid waste
Dr. Rathje writes:
One noteworthy contributor to a landfill's paper content is the
telephone book. Dig a trench through a landfill and telephone books
can be seen to stud some strata like currants in a cake. They are
thrown out regularly, once a year; in the city of Phoenix, that means
almost twelve pounds of phone books annually (one yellow pages and one
white pages) for every business and household. And their expansion in
number seems to know no bounds. First there are the normal "Baby Bell"
phonebooks published by the seven regional phone companies, often two
or three of them per household in a city of average size. Then come
the many competing brands of Yellow Pages published by rivals to the
Bell system companies: Reuben H. Donnely and GTE Directories are the
biggest, but there are some two hundred other yellow pages publishers.
And then there are phonebooks that target specific businesses, or
senior citizens, or juveniles, or members of different ethnic groups.
Miniature paper back book sized phone books have recently appeard for
people who have car phone, to ride beside them on the front seat. In
most cases phonebooks are made of paper of such low quality that
recycling is difficult although some end uses do exist.
(source: "Rubbish the Archaeology of Garbage" Rathje W page 104) |
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Helen Cothran wrote "It's no secret that the United States is the most wasteful
country on the planet. We dispose of 210 million tons of municipal
waste every year and the yearly costs of that disposal is just shy of
$45 billion. Combine residential and business garbage with the
truckloads of industrial waste produced in the U.S. and we have an
annual pile of trash weighing 12 billion tons."
(source Garbage and Recycling Opposing Viewpoints, Helen Cothran 2003, Page 63)
RECYCLE A PHONE BOOK???
According to "The state of Garbage in America" for 2003, western
states had the highest regional recycling rate (38 percent) and the
Rocky Mountain States had the lowest (9 percent with Colorado at a
Simal 2.8 percent.) - Garbage Land Elizabeth Royte 2005
SO WE WILL RECYCLE AWAY!! BUT WHERE IS AWAY??????"All paper in Fort Collins is collected, from there it is sent to Denver to be sorted, after that it is shipped to China."-anonymous employee
Type 3S2 semi truck can carry up to 40 tons and gets 5-6 miles per gallons
Fort Collins to Denver 50 miles
Denver to LA 1016 miles
203 gallons of gas
Fort Collins less than 25 % of phone books recycled 77.5 tons of phone books = 2 trips to LA so 406 gallons gas
The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged 14 cylinder two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of
Japan's Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines.
At maximum economy the engine exceeds 50% thermal efficiency. Even at its most
efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour. It takes the average ship 10 days to get from U.S.A to China (398,400 gallons of Heavy fuel).
IT IS BETTER THAN SENDING IT TO THE LAND FILL BUT IS IT GOOD???NO NO NO NO No NO NO nO No No NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!
3 strikes and your out!!!Helen Cothran said, "Recycling can make a difference, but in the long term it will not
be enough. This is due to the fact that recycling merely delays the
impacts of consumption; it does not decrease them. Recycling does, of
course, expand the "use of life" of resources; but eventually they fall
out of the recycle-productions-consumption cycle, either because they
are thrown into the garbage by mistake or carelessness or, more likely
because they degrade after being recycled and cannot be recycled again.
Paper, for example can be recycled on average, only three times before
its fibers are too short and the ink residue too dense to continue to
produce a functional recycled product."
(source: Garbage and Recycling Helen Cothran page 75).
Elizabeth Royte informed, "While residential and commercial paper-recycling rates across the United
States have steadily increased from 30 percent in 1988, when the
American Forest &Paper Association started to keep track, to 50.3
percent in 2002-consumption of virgin paper has steadily risen as well.
Over the past 50 years according to the independent market research
firm Nima Hunter, worldwide use of virgin paper has increased sixfold."
Garbage Land Elizabeth Royte 2005
REDUCE PHONE BOOKS!!!!
Helen Cothran said;
"The simple truth is that all of our
major environmental concerns are either caused by, or contribute to,
the ever increasing consumption of goods and services. But rather than
deal with the effects of too much shopping and purchasing, we've taken
the time-honored path of shooting the messengers-the packaging, dirty
disposable diapers, foam cups, and other discards that are signs of
consumption but are not really consumption itself. And in so doing, we
have focused only on the symptoms-too much waste and pollution and the
underlying problem itself. In this context, recycling is merely an
aspirin, alleviating a rather large collective hangover. But just as
aspirin does not prevent hangovers, recycling will not preven over
consumption. IN fact, by putting too much faith in recycling, we are
actually rewarding ourselves for overconsuming. Think about it. We
feel good when we fill the recycling bin. IN reality, we should feel
good when there's no waste to put in it at all."
(source: Garbage and Recycling Helen Cothran page 78)
COST OF PHONE BOOKS
OPT OUT
Opt out means you have to make a phone call to not have a phone book delivered.
Here is a list of some of the phone numbers to call for FORT Collins and anywhere else these companies are at
Names&Numbers 1-800-592-7625
Qwest Dex 1-866-606-9339
Yellow Book 1-800-929-3556
BUT BEWARE............. You may still get a phone book and this is why
Specialty Directory Distribution Services, Inc.
http://www.sddsinc.com/main.htm
Headquartered
in Atlanta, Georgia, SDDS distributes approximately 32 million
directories annually. Twenty-eight million directories are handled for
initial distribution and 3,750,000 for secondary fulfillment. SDDS has
four permanent facilities in addition to the Atlanta headquarters
serving the distribution needs across the United States
Telephone
(770) 932-8886
Each
route contains a street list, these streets are to be delivered within
the number ranges listed. (B) both sides of the street are to be
delivered (O) odd side only (E) even side only.A
load slip is written for each route signed out, it will list the number
of bundles needed to deliver the route. A load slip is to be given to
the loader when picking up your books.
Payment
is made according to the contract for your route, it is based on the
number of books delivered. The rate per books varies due to the area
and the zip code. Checks are sent to the field offices twice a week.
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Hired contractors are payed more money for more phone books to be delivered, so they may not take the time to read the list. There are several stories of people who requested to not receive a book, yet they still got one or more!
 Here is a letter from Ed Ogle from Loveland, Colorado
To Whom It May Concern:
This letter is a follow up of our recent conversation concerning the dumping of telephone books.
It was around August 2004 that this occurred. I recall when it was because I had just purchased my current home. One day I took a load of trash to the Larimer County Dump just south of Fort Collins. Dumps are busy places and once inside there is an attendant who directs you to your spot. The normal process is to get your stuff dumped as quickly as possible because there are usually trucks lined up waiting to get access.
On this day as I was throwing my trash out I just happen to notice that the truck next to me was dumping hundreds of new phone books. This activity seemed irresponsible so I went over to the truck and suggested that he recycle the phone books instead of dumping them. From where we were both parked we could see a large dumpster down at the south side of the dump with the works "PHONE BOOKS" clearly marked on the side. The guy doing the dumping said he didn't want to recycle them, that he just wanted to throw them out almost as if he were trying to make some sort of point. Just about this time the attendant (an employee at the dump) came over and also suggested that the guy should take his phone books down the hill and recycle them. The man once again said something to the effect that he didn't care and was going to dump them right here and be done with it. After being told this attendant looked at me shook his head and said something to the effect that, "well we tried" He then walked off and continued his traffic control activities.
I recall these phone books were new. Some were shrink-wrapped in bundles, some were loose. I suspect that this guy had been working as a door to door deliverer but had quit and was just dumping them. I have a fairly good memory for details and I recall the truck was a black dodge with South Dakota plates.
Finally I would once again like to point out that from where we were standing, we could clearly see a dumpster which had been designated for recycling phone books. Even so, this guy was dumping them anyway
Sincerely,
Ed Ogle
OPT IN!!!!
It is a plan for those who want the phone book can make the phone call to do receive a phone book.
Phone book companies can leave off a business card at your house, instead of a 1 to 4
pound phone book on your door step. That way you do not have the
problem!
This is human&earth's aim. For the people who want a phone book, they can call and receive one.
This impart can be enforced by the city litter code:
Fort Collins City rule on littering- Littering-Fine $100 No person shall leave any loose paper, rags,
rubbish, waste material, refuse garbage, trash, or other debris upon a public or private place. http://www.fcgov.com/neighborhoodservices/cl-violations.php
(970) 416-2200.
Definition of the word litter
litter-rubbish CARELESSLY DROPPED OR LEFT ABOUT (especially in public places) litter-make a place messy by strewing garbage around small items of rubbish carelessly dropped in public places. Worthless or nonsensical matter
This solution will reduce the amount of waste, 600,000 phone books to a city of 128,000 people, many of which use the internet 411-goog and other forms to get information to contact businesses.
Opt in will reduce the city's cost to remove the delivery of phone books.
Opt in will require the phonebook companies to not be so careless about their product and perhaps not get as much money in debt.
Opt in will reduce the negative impact phonebook companies have placed on this planet with great presence!!
I will tell my city council and the world.....please do the same. Thank you
Rob Klein
human
11/02/09 STEP FORWARD!!!!!
After contacting the city council of Fort Collins, I looked for the most progressive city that I could think of. San Fransisco had a request of ways to save money. I put my prep work on Senator Leland Yee in regards to making phone books opt in rather than opt out as a selling point to save money as that is what his website was requesting.
The result. Success!!!!Phone books "opt in" San Fransisco A.B.C reports
11/19/09 STEP BACK!!!!!!
I forward this article from San Fransisco to my City Council whom I yet to have heard from. They were interested in the idea of being progressive. However, they sent the opt in plan to the city resource and it was shot down with this Email in full here.
Mr. Klein has inquired about the feasibility of adopting local
prohibitions on the distribution of telephone books in Fort Collins.
He points out that many phone books go directly into the recycling
stream without ever being put to use, or worse, end up in the waste
stream bound for landfill disposal. It is certainly interesting to
note that proactive communities in California are working to require
phone book distributors to provide opt-out provisions.
Phone
books are accepted in the local recycling system (both at drop-off
sites and in the curbside collection program). We believe most citizens
are able to prevent putting phone books in the trash. From talking to
Stephen Gillette, the manager of the Larimer County landfill, he
doesn't perceive that phone books are a unique disposal problem,
although they do still see significant amounts of all types of waste
paper being landfilled.
In considering the need for a local
ordinance in Fort Collins, City staff notes that there is a clear trend
toward greater reliance on electronic media - especially among younger
people - which may suggest that the distribution of phone books will
become much less prevalent, or even obsolete, in the not-so-distant
future. During our strategic planning processes for how to meet Fort
Collins' goals to divert waste from landfill disposal, we have not
identified phone books as a significant source of waste material
compared, for instance, to organics or construction/demolition debris.
It's true that recycling is never as effective as any kind of source
reduction activity, such as Mr. Klein's proposal to prevent phone books
from being randomly distributed. However, given that we do know that
citizens at least have the option to recycle them, staff would not
suggest initiating a new project to develop a prohibition on phone book
distribution.
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Regards,
Wendy Bricher
Executive Administrative Assistant
City Manager's Office
01/14/10 STEP FORWARD!!!!
A BILL WAS BORN TODAY!!!
Link to the phone book bill for the state of Colorado
After sending several letters to State Rep's of Colorado, Bill 10-1068 has been formed please support this bill Colorado can be the First state to reduce excess phone book
Mr. Klein, thank you so much for your call in support of Rep.
Ferrandino's phone book bill. He decided to act on a very good
suggestion of one of his constituents, and we're thrilled to see the
wide range of support it's getting so far.
I took up your suggestion to visit your site. Is this the page that contains the research you've done on phone books: http://humanandearth.com/subpage80.html? If not, would you email me what you have?
Thanks again for your support.
Andrea Mérida
Aide to Rep. Mark Ferrandino
03/03/10 STEP BACK !!!!!!
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