COSTA MESA : Residents Urged to Recycle Phone Books
The city has collected 72 tons of telephone books in a recycling drive that ends Monday morning.
The total is considerably more than the 50 tons of phone books collected last year, but falls short of the 100-ton goal set for this year. Costa Mesa officials hope to get closer to the goal during this final weekend of the drive.
“We need people to clean out and get their telephone books out this weekend,” said Florine T. Reichle, assistant manager of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District.
The 72 tons collected in eight bins throughout the city is slightly less than the 78 tons Irvine has collected, Reichle said. The two cities have challenged each other for bragging rights over which city will recycle more telephone books.
Most of the books collected in Costa Mesa were dropped off at the bin in front of The Times building on Sunflower Avenue and the one in front of City Hall at 77 Fair Drive.
Other bins are at Lions Park on Anaheim Avenue, south of 19th Street; the 3100 block of Airway Avenue, south of Baker Street; the Orange Coast College Recycling Center on Adams Avenue between Fairview Road and Pinecreek Drive; Costa Mesa Disposal, 2051 Placentia Ave.; Lindbergh School, Orange Avenue north of 22nd Street, and Shiffer Park, 3143 Bear St.
The collected directories will be sent to Pacific Rim countries for conversion into fiber-related products.
For more information on the city’s recycling program, call the Resource Recovery Hotline at (714) 754-5600.
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