I'm with you on all this. It kills me when I see huge piles of garbage out on trash day, including furniture that could easily be donated (the thrift stores will even send a truck to your house to pick it up!). And when I see people put tons of stuff in their garbage that could easily be recycled... we have curbside pick up of some recycling, and a huge recycling center that takes pretty much everything, just a few miles down the road.

Unfortunately, we have no curbside pickup, but we bring everything over to the center ourselves, anyway. I think curbside pickup should be available everywhere, though, because it would encourage more people to recycle.

Aeye, we get the grocery store flyers at least twice a week. It doesn't make me any more likely to shop at the store, to be honest.

I think it would work in a restaurant's favor if they used cloth napkins. It wouldn't be much extra work to wash them, and it would save them money in the long run...

I was reminded of another pet peeve of mine yesterday when I walked out of a mall to find a cleaning lady's business card attached to my car window. Businesses even go up and down the streets of my condo sticking stuff under our windshield wipers.

Paper napkins at food eateries. Way too much paper. And people take about 30 when all they need is one (or none).