Compiled by Erin Walsh

Sure, we've all had those private moments of green guilt, when we throw away the peanut butter jar instead of cleaning it out and recycling it, or revel in an extra-long hot shower after a hard day. But in today's culture of growing environmental awareness, public displays of blatant non-greenness are getting hard to ignore.

So when one GardenWeb member posed the question, "What's the most laughable non-green thing you've seen lately?", others were quick to chime in with eyebrow-raising examples of eco-unfriendliness. Read on, and be prepared to laugh—or cry—along.

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