Toolkits from PSI: drug take back and phone book opt-out

The Product Stewardship Institute (PSI) recently released a How-to Guide for Drug Take-Back (PDF) for managing pharmacy-based collection programs for leftover household pharmaceuticals, as well as a Phone Book Opt-Out Toolkit. The phone book opt-out toolkit is a resource designed to help government officials, environmental advocates, teachers, and other interested community members launch their own phone book opt-out campaign. Local governments pay nearly $60 million annually to recycle or dispose of unwanted phone books, and each year the industry uses an estimated 4.68 million trees worth of wood fiber, equal to 14 football fields' worth of forest per day.