Like many, I try to do the right thing by separating my waste and encouraging recycling. However, I then wonder if the effort is worthwhile when I look at the piles of Yellow Pages placed outside households and at the entrances of apartment blocks. Many (most?) will remain uncollected and will litter the streets. What a waste.

You would think that in 2015, with a fully-fledged website and Malta’s internet penetration being pervasive, the indiscriminate distribution of paper copies of the Yellow Pages is environmentally harmful.

I will acknowledge that there may be a percentage of the population that will find the paper copy of the Yellow Pages useful but the rest of us should have the possibility of an ‘opt out’.

I realise that reducing the distribution of paper copies significantly may have an adverse effect on the company’s business model but, in this day and age, the Yellow Pages are rather dated and, frankly, environmentally insensitive.

Do the right thing, promote the website and ditch the book except for those who request it.