Those ubiquitous yellow bags started showing up on my street last week–the ones that carry this year’s batch of new phone books. Of course, with the advent of online directories, such as Switchboard.com and plain old Google, sometimes you really don’t need a phone book anymore–except if you have a small child come to dinner and you don’t have a booster seat and you happen to get a really thick phone book that you can use as a makeshift booster seat. No disrespect to the phone book industry, but I just don’t understand for how much longer people will rely on or even find phone books useful.

In the meantime your home is probably like mine: you have phone books you don’t need anymore and aren’t sure exactly how to dispose of them. That was exactly what faced a cousin of mine in Indianapolis, who was bemoaning getting yet another phone book and her not wanting to throw it in the trash.

So to help my cousin out–and anyone else who would like to dispose of his or her phone books in a responsible way–here at 4 options for getting rid of old phone books.

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