Carson City residents have a number of options for recycling their old Nevada Bell phone books, including one right outside their homes.
Nevada Bell's recycling campaign runs through Dec. 4 and is a collaboration among RSW Recycling, Scolari's Food & Drug Company, Capital Sanitation, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, Carson City Environmental Health Department, Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful and Nevada Bell.
The books can be placed on top of the Capital Sanitation curbside recycling bins for pickup on the regular recycling schedule.
Outdated Nevada Bell directories also can be deposited in marked bins at Scolari's Food and Drug Stores, Nevada Bell offices, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles office at 555 Wright Way, the Nevada State Printing Office at 301 S. Stewart Street, the state offices at 333 W. Nye Lane, the Carson City Corporate yard at 3303 Butti Way, the Capital Sanitation corporate yard at 4880 Highway 50 East or the recycling area at the Carson City Landfill on Flint Drive.
"Nevada Bell is very pleased that our phone book recycling program has become such a success over the years," said Marsha Lindsey, president of Nevada Bell. "About forty percent of the current Nevada Bell directory is made from recycled phone books, and through partnerships like this, we help to preserve Nevada's valuable natural resources and landfill space."
Other recycling locations outside Carson City include area Scolari's stores, Nevada Bell offices, RSW Recycling, and US Post Offices in certain rural communities. Customers can find the nearest recycling location by calling the Nevada Bell Phone Book Recycling Hotline at 1-800-953-4400.
The recycling campaign was started in 1991, following the redesign of the Nevada Bell directories to create an easily recycled product containing environmentally friendly inks, glues and paper coatings. Only Nevada Bell directories will be accepted during this recycling program because the ability to recycle materials used in non-Nevada Bell directories cannot be guaranteed. The phone books will be recycled into new phone books via a process called closed-loop recycling.
