Today we went out for supper to Kelly O's. As usual we got our drinks without straws and our dipping sauce in a ceramic bowl instead of a throw-away plastic cup. Also par for the course, I managed to order more than I could eat in a sitting and therefore had leftovers. After running out to the car and finding we had not, in fact, packed reusable containers, we asked the waitress if they had a little tinfoil we could wrap my leftover baked potato in. They did, which worked out for us. I would rather not have used tinfoil because it's the same level of disposable one-use behaviour we are trying to avoid with this project, but at least metal is more easily reused than plastic is.
When we returned to the car after supper, we found a lovely glossy-paper (plasticized) ad slipped neatly under my wiper-blade. Reading it, we discovered that the generous garbage donor was a business just down the street from where we parked, so we brought it back to them. This caught them off guard and the young folk working there seemed a little weirded out, but at least now they know that not everyone wants their garbage. We explained to them why we don't want it, and they put it in their stack to go out in the next ad-littering spree, but at least they're now a little more aware. Even if it weren't plasticized, it would still be quite a nuisance. I really wish our society would pull its collective head out of its rump and stop being so selfishly wasteful and quit with the junk ads all the time. It's super inefficient and annoying as well.
-Sheri
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