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Publishers use paper made largely from leftover woodchips and other byproducts of the lumber industry, and some also include recycled content from newspapers, old directories, and other paper-based products.

Paper usage has decreased 70 percent since 2007, driven by changes in directory sizes, more efficient manufacturing, reduction in residential white pages and YellowPagesOptOut.com.

Yellow Pages directories are printed with soy-based ink and bound with vegetable-based adhesives that are environmentally safe.

The EPA has estimated in past studies that directories make up less than one half of one percent of the municipal solid waste stream.  Now the EPA has chosen to stop measuring directories altogether, further signaling the minor impact of directories on municipal waste.

The EPA’s latest Municipal Solid Waste Facts and Figures (2013) reported that the paper category including newspapers, directories, and other mechanical papers maintains a high recycling rate of 67%, about double the U.S. average for all products.