GARDEN GROVE : Phone Book Recycling Program Offered

City officials are asking residents to help save landfill space by recycling old telephone directories instead of throwing them away.

Pacific Bell Directory recently launched a recycling program with the Garden Grove Sanitary District and the Midway City Sanitary District.

Denise Landstedt of the city’s Public Services Department said the Garden Grove Sanitary District has agreed to pick up discarded telephone directories that residents place on the curb with other recyclable materials.

Business owners may place old telephone books in their trash bins. Trash company employees will later sort and remove them for recycling.

Residents and businesses served by the Midway City Sanitary District may take old phone books to a drop-off center at the Eastgate Shopping Center at Chapman Avenue and Valley View.

The phone books will be accepted until Dec. 15.

Landstedt said that every ton of recycled phone books saves about three cubic yards of landfill space.

The old phone books will be shipped to an out-of-state paper mill, where they will be recycled for use in new directories, she said.

Pacific Bell began distributing the 1995 telephone directories throughout the city this week.