MILWAUKEE WIS.,  Milwaukee residents will have an opportunity to help the city’s coffers and improve the environment by recycling old phone directories during the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Campus Sustainability Day Oct. 21. Last year, residents recycling phone books through the city’s curbside program helped save thousands of dollars.

Project ReDirectory, sponsored by the AT&T Real Yellow Pages, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), and the City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works (DPW) aims to increase awareness of the recyclability of phone books by holding a collection event on the UWM campus south of the Zelazo Center from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Wednesday October 21. This event takes place during the distribution of the Milwaukee AT&T Real Yellow Pages directory.

Over 50 students and volunteers wearing Project ReDirectory t-shirts will collect outdated phone books from the UWM campus offices throughout the day. Those within the university as well as residents from surrounding neighborhoods are invited to participate by dropping off their outdated directories during this one-day event. Free snacks will be offered to those that participate (while supplies last).