Are you tired of receiving so many phone books? Wish you could opt out from getting them? If so, you're not alone. Oregon DEQ estimates that in 2003 there were 6.45 million sets of white/yellow pages published and distributed in Oregon, despite the that fact that there were only 1.33 million households in the state.

Nationally, only about 20 percent of phone books are recycled. The rest end up in landfills or are burned. What can you do to help this situation?