Future deliveries of printed Yellow Pages look glum in San Francisco as the Board of Supervisors takes a final vote this week calling for restricting directory deliveries only to residences and businesses that request them, notes Grumpy Editor.
The Yellow Pages put a blight on the community and banning the book of names, numbers and addresses will protect the environment, claims the board.
The likely ban on unsolicited distribution of Yellow Pages is the latest in a series of “green” measures in the City by the Bay.
An estimated 1.6 million Yellow Pages directories are distributed annually in San Francisco.
A ban would make San Francisco the nation’s first city to thwart Yellow Pages distribution.
Backers say the Internet makes the directories unnecessary.
"If we're serious about the environment, it's time we recognize that phone books are a 20th century tool that doesn't meet the business or environmental needs of the 21st century," Supervisor David Chiu pointed out when his directory-banning idea surfaced three months ago.
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