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"What a waste of trees," someone wrote, on a Yelp thread called "Does anybody use the phone book anymore?" "Seems like every month I get a pile of phone books at my door," another commenter complained.

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Millions of us also undoubtedly feel the same way about the unsolicited catalogs and mail solicitations that invade our mailboxes every day and that waste millions of trees' worth of paper.

The Hawaiians were offended by the waste of sacred trees which did not help morale.

And as George Bernard Shaw observed, suppressing superfluous letters will in time reduce the waste of resources and trees.

The ills observed through mining activities are rapid loss of farm lands, water in the selected study areas, and heaping of rocks and mine waste around trees; silting of rivers and streams is also evident.

By making paper from the macerated bark of trees, hemp waste, old rags, and fishnets, he discovered a far superior and cheaper way of creating a writing surface, compared with the cloth made of silk that was commonly used.

The largest city in the region, Sendai will collect and reuse most of the debris, including large amounts of lumber waste from trees uprooted by the tsunami.

The READ section is also awesome in that it takes what is typically a bunch of wasted trees (excess newspapers, periodicals) and allows us to be more environmentally friendly and timely with things like news/event info/sports/entertainment etc.

Inspectors were at a loss to explain the discrepancy until the Clinton administration made available to Hans Blix, then the I.A.E.A.'s director, a series of satellite photos that showed, first, a waste-storage facility, then a row of trees tall enough to screen the facility from the road to the reprocessing plant, then finally a patch of fresh sod where the facility had been buried.

The gas makes up 82 per cent of US greenhouse gas pollution, and comes from the burning of other fossil fuels, waste and trees and from chemical reactions, as well as the use of coal.

Alone, in a wheelchair, with behind him a waste of white and a leafless tree, he could be King Lear, slumped after a howl on the heath, or an escapee from Waiting for Godot.

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