INC NEWS - Durham Encourages Phone Book Recycling

[Blalock, Amy]

CITY OF DURHAM

Office of Public Affairs

101 City Hall Plaza

Durham, NC 27701

 

 

News Release

 

For Details, Contact:

Amy C. Blalock

Senior Public Affairs Specialist

(919) 560-4123 x 253

(919) 475-7735 (cell)

Amy.Blalock at durhamnc.gov <mailto:Amy.Blalock at durhamnc.gov> 

 

For Immediate Release:  November 14, 2007

 

City of Durham Encourages Residents to Recycle Phone Directories 

 

Durham, N.C. - Durham residents will soon begin receiving new telephone
directories and this year, instead of throwing away old directories in
the household trash, the City of Durham wants to remind residents to
recycle them in their curbside recycling bin instead.

 

According to Josephine Valencia, waste disposal manager for the City's
Department of Solid Waste Management, tons of old phone directories are
thrown away each year instead of recycled.  "According to the
Environmental Protection Agency's 2005 estimate, 660,000 tons of
telephone directories are distributed each year in this country, but
only about 18 percent of them are ever recycled," Valencia said.  "We
want our residents to remember that old or unwanted directories are easy
to recycle in Durham and can be placed year-round into either their
curbside recycling bin or brought to one of City's recycling drop-off
centers."   

 

Valencia advises residents to remove any plastic bags, magnets or other
attachments to their directories before recycling.  In addition to
curbside recycling, residents can visit one of the City's drop-off
centers listed below to place their old directories into the mixed paper
containers.   

 

City of Durham Drop-Off Centers:

* Open 24-hours-a-day unless otherwise noted.

*         Festival Shopping Center, 3457 Hillsborough Road

*         Heritage Square Shopping Center, 401 East Lakewood Avenue

*         Northgate Mall, 1058 West Club Boulevard

*         Oxford Commons Shopping Center, 3500 North Roxboro Road

*         TFC Recycling, 1017 South Hoover Road

*         The Village Shopping Center, 1100 North Miami Boulevard

*         Waste Disposal & Recycling Center, 2115 East Club Boulevard (*
Monday - Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday from 7:30 a.m.
to 12 p.m.)

 

For more information about curbside recycling, visit the City's Web site
at www.durhamnc.gov/departments/solid or contact Valencia at (919)
560-4186, extension 253 or via e-mail at 
Josephine.Valencia at durhamnc.gov.       

 

About the Department of Solid Waste Management

The City of Durham's Department of Solid Waste Management promotes and
supports a high quality of life for the citizens of Durham by providing
comprehensive, responsive, environmentally-safe, efficient and
cost-effective solid waste collection, recycling and disposal programs.
Department services include roll-out cart collection, cart delivery and
repair service, dumpster collection, cardboard collection, yard waste
collection, waste reduction and recycling, bulky item pick-up, street
cleaning and disposal services.  For more information, visit the City's
Web site at  www.durhamnc.gov/departments/solid/. 

 

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