More Litter In My Front Yard?

I went outside this evening and, when I went to close my front door, I noticed that someone had placed an 8.5 x 11 ad on the door. It was actually a fairly nice full color ad and the paper on which it was printed was pretty robust, not exactly 20lb printer paper -- I think it was for a deal on pizza. We get these things all of the time in some form or another, sometimes as much as four or five a week. We also get small baggies filled with a few rocks and an ad for a landscaping service that gets left on our driveway once a month. Let's also not forget the occasional ad that gets left on car windshields in store parking lots. Call me Scrodge, but I'm pretty tired of getting these things. What happens to these things once people get them anyway? They get thrown away or recycled, meaning, it's trash. With all of the pressure on various cities and counties to put less refuse in landfills, and with our natural resources quickly being used up, it's a wonder why nobody's come down on this type of advertising up to this point. I mean, technically, they're littering, right? Is there some sort of exception in the litter laws that state that you can toss something on the ground or on someone else's property as long as it's an advertisement?

Again, this may be me just getting old and bitter, but I think it's time to put an end to this type of advertising. I, for one, would love to see a boycott of businesses who chose to advertise in this fashion -- it's simply not good for the environment. Being kind of a wimp and way too immature when it comes to image, I won't be leading any sort of public campaign, but I do refuse to give people my business who use this method. Maybe if more people felt like this, they'd stop. Or, maybe one day I'll grow up and stop whining. =)