Eco friendly ?  

It drives me nuts to see perfectly reusable items thrown in the trash. Especially when they are not biodegradable. Why is it so much trouble to give the stuff away to someone else or donate it?

If the price is the same I would always pick the one that is eco-friendly, the problem is that the price is rarely the same. Many products that are labeled eco-friendly are not as friendly as they advertise... a t-shirt made from recycled materials and then shipped from brazil to california is still causing a lot of pollution for the environment. I try to buy things that are eco-friendly and when I can't find that, I try to buy things that were made close to home.

I also do not throw out perfectly good items, I give my old stuff to Good Will if no one else I know wants it.

I would buy a car made of recycled items in a heartbeat if it was a good car! Good question!

I purchase things made from recycled materials. When I buy eggs I get the carton that is made this way, and not the foam kind. When the eggs are gone I start my vegetable plants in them, as they eventually fall apart and become part of the soil. No Trash. There is alot of plastic though and I mentioned this before. When you buy something, like a toy or something that's packaged in those plastic containers. The kind you have to use a saw to open. Once you take everything out you just see how much more package there is compared to what it was holding. Why so much, it could have been packaged in a something smaller, and it could have been packaged in cardboard. Now I know they do it for security reasons and cardboard would be easier for someone to open the it and steal the item, but then why not lock it in one of those secuirty cases they have? So much waste just piling up and there's really no need.