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YellowPagesGoesGreen.org is an American website that features a national online telephone number and street address directory, containing Yellow Pages (business listings) and White Pages (residential listings) throughout the United States. Owned and operated by Yellow Pages Directory Inc., which is headquartered in East Northport, NY, the website was originally launched in 2010 by a private owner and was soon acquired by Yellow Pages Directory Inc. In addition to telephone and street address listings, the website also touts an environmentally friendly theme and features numerous informational blog articles on the subject of conversation, in addition to being outspoken advocates of opting-out of traditional print telephone directory home delivery. == Info == YellowPagesGoesGreen.org is an online search engine and telephone directory with an "environmentally friendly" marketing standpoint. They encompass yellow (business) and residential (white) pages and currently feature over 28.5 million business listings throughout the United States.〔Northport Patch: ("Unique Online Directory Inspiring The Nation To "Opt-Out and Go Green"" )〕 Users of the site are able to add, edit, and delete their Business and Residential listings. In addition, YellowPagesGoesGreen.org also has a digital coupon collecting and sharing app available for both Android and iPhone devices. Yellowpagesgoesgreen.org touts itself as a purely digital alternative to traditional print telephone directories. As a web-based service, their marketing claim is that they do not generate the large amount of paper-based waste associated with physical directory media such as telephone books. Paper directories have long been cited as a source of pollution and waste in society; according to Statspotting.com, paper waste accounts for up to 40% of total waste produced in the United States each year, which adds up to 71.6 million tons of paper waste per year in the United States alone.〔Statspotting.com: ("Paper Waste Statistics: 71.6 Million Tons of Paper Waste Per Year In U.S. Alone" )〕 In addition, the Yellowpagesgoesgreen.org service states that they update their listings on a daily basis, keeping them constantly current, whereas print phone directories are only manufactured periodically and therefore do not always offer up-to-date directory information. As an example, an article published by Forbes by writer Tom Barlow entitled "Yellow Pages: No More Waste on the Stoop," touts the internet as the clear and present successor of print yellow pages; in comparison, he says, it renders phone books "as obsolete as a slide rule."〔Forbes: ("Yellow Pages: No More Waste on the Stoop" )〕 Another service Yellowpagesgoesgreen.org provides for users is the ability for anyone nationwide to “opt-out” of local telephone book delivery; their website offers a portal to The Local Search Association's National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice Opt-Out Site,〔The Local Search Association's National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice Opt-Out Site: ("Opt-Out of Directory Delivery" )〕 which allows anyone in the United States to cease delivery of phone books to their house from their local telephone carrier;〔NewsLI: ("Yellow Pages Goes Green Champions Opt-Out Registry Initiative" )〕 a similar program in Seattle, Washington was recently responsible for the cancellation of close to a quarter of a million books since its inception, proving there is a need for an effective national opt-out service.〔Forbes: ("Yellow Pages: No More Waste on the Stoop" )〕 The site also features a regularly updated Blog that primarily features articles of an environmental nature, such as organic crop growing, hybrid vehicles, and ways to avoid pollution.〔YellowPagesGoesGreen.org Blog: ("YellowPagesGoesGreen.org Blog" )〕 Since its purchase of Yellowpagesgoesgreen.org, Yellow Pages Directory, Inc. was approved to be treated as a private S-corporation by the New York State Department of State Division of Corporation effective May 20, 2010,〔NYS Department of State Division of Corporations Entity Information: ("YellowPagesGoesGreen.org S-corporation Status" )〕 and has also been an accredited member of the Better Business Bureau since July 15, 2011.〔Better Business Bureau: ("Yellow Pages Directory Inc. BBB Business Review" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「YellowPagesGoesGreen.Org」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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