Telephone Book Recycling

February 15 - March 15, 2008

Recycling old phone books helps to save valuable natural resources. If all phone books delivered in the Midlands area last year were recycled, we'd save:

  • Enough lumber to build more than 600 Habitat for Humanity houses
  • Enough trees to fill a 40-acre forest
  • Enough energy to light 10,237 homes for a year
  • Enough gasoline to fuel nearly 200 cars for a year!

Recycled telephone books can be used to make asphalt roofing shingles, insulation, paper egg cartons, and more!

2008 Telephone Book Recycling Drop Off Sites

  • A Recycling Center - 1009 Fontaine Road, Columbia, SC 29223
  • City of Cayce Public Safety Department - 1800 12th Street Extension, Cayce, SC 29171
  • Bi-Lo - 6021 St. Andrews Road, Columbia, SC 29212
  • Blythewood Branch, US Post Office - 401 McNulty Street, Blythewood, SC 29016 (near the intersection of Blythewood Road and Boney Road)
  • Clemson Sandhill Research and Education Center - 900 Clemson Road, Columbia, SC 29229
  • Forest Acres Recycling Convenience Center - at the corner of Covenant Road and Robert Springs Road, Forest Acres, SC 29206
  • Fort Jackson Recycling Center - Building #6568 on Lee Road, Fort Jackson, SC (Enter the Fort through Gate 2 on Forest Drive.  After Burger King, turn left onto Lee Road.)
  • Lexington County Collection and Recycling Centers - All 12 locations(Open Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Sun, 3:00 to 7:00 p.m.)
  • SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) - 2600 Bull Street, Columbia, SC 29201 rear parking lot; next to City of Columbia’s recycling drop-off site.
  • Southeast Regional Branch, Richland County Public Library - 7421 Garner's Ferry Road, Columbia, SC 29209
  • Sonoco Recycling - 1132 Idlewilde Boulevard (off of Bluff Road), Columbia, SC 29201
  • University of South Carolina - parking lot at Gadsden and Greene Streets, caddy corner to Colonial Center parking lot

Telephone Book Recycling is coordinated by Keep the Midlands Beautiful and sponsored by:

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