The distribution of phone books has been targeted by environmentalists and others in much of the world: This Flickr photo from Australia has a caption mocking paper phone books.
<i>Closing In, Kwajalein Atoll</i> (1944). (Official U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph, National Park Service, <a href='http://www.nps.gov/amme/index.htm' target='_blank'>American Memorial Park</a>, Mariana Islands, Saipan).