( Delibrately put in chat rather than AIBU) sort of inspired by the stop flying thread but other threads in resent weeks i've kindcof been thinking this the last while.
When i was growing up we had milk in glass bottles that we had to wash and return to be reused delivered by local milkman in an electric cart. Yes we can now get milk and more but very very few people do use this service mostly its the dreaded plastic bottle from the supermarket.
We certuanly had the pop man (ok i think that was fairly rare in the 80's but maybe not in the 70's) who'd gove ypu a percentage back for returning the glass bottle rather than the big plastic bottles from the supermarket
Talking of supermarkets, i don't really remember plastic bags we used to put every thing back in our trolley and pack it in cardboard boxes at the packing self in finefare anyway. Me and my brother always used to race to the box pile to find the suitable box. See the lidl/aldi style is nothing new is it. That was kust going to the supermarket people have just forgotten because we got used to being given handfulls of plastic bags at the checkout.
I remember my respite career taking fabric shopping bags with her that were kept by the front door. So did my nan so that might have been old fashioned then but i'm sure they weren't the only ones to do it.
Meat was more expensive and you generally shopped at the local butchers.
Holidays at the old beach holday resorts were just as accptable as a holiday, i spent most of my childhood blackpool, scarborough, and mainly cornwall, so did tje majority of my friends. Going abroad was posh and a treat. Flying was pretty expensive.
I remember the excitement that ketchup/mayo/salad cream came in squeezy plastic bottles rather than glass ones that you had to hit to get the source out. But how much is that comtrubuting ti the plastic crisis.
When did paper straws go out of fashion i remember them loads when i was a kid. But just talkinf to people about mcdonalds introducing them some people were confused how they'd even work. That said we did use trillions of those tiny thin blue ones that came with the school milk (how many of those are floating around our oceans now) but the school milk came in tiny little glass bottles
I'm not trying to preach i'm far far far from perfect. Just its occured to me all these oh we need more liquids in glass bottles i'm really not tuat old and i remember them pretty much all being. The shop local again we were more reliant ob our local shops and less reliant on plastic packaging where/when did it change so much.
I also remember the go green movement of the late 80's i had a big book of being green fir kids or something in 89 ish. It just strikes me that we were actually living what would be considered quite 'eco' these days back in the 80's