spotweldersfriend wrote:
Do they still put groceries in large paper bags at the supermarkets over there,jimmy?
I rarely see paper bags. I picked up something last week in a paper bag and thought, "how quaint!" lol. (I did too)
I also almost never see anything in glass, to the point they're so rare I started to collect glass jars. 5 years and I can fit them into a 2 shoe boxes.
it's actually better to use plastic shopping bags for rubbish over purpose-made bin liners because they are thinner, often have holes and therefore break down faster.
True, and that's what I do. Although a documentary I watched showed how twenty years later they were still there (in the landfill).
Of course, in the olden days when I was a kid, food scraps were given to the chooks and other rubbish was wrapped tightly in newspaper before going into a bin that now wouldn't hold an average family's daily rubbish output. Glass milk bottles were constantly re-used, kids collected soft drink bottles to cash in for cigarette money and glass jars were washed out and re-used for home made jams and pickles, or given to the guy next door who sold honey and always needed jars.
Suddenly I feel old and irrelevant.....
Not really, I'd like to see it get back to that, a lot better for the environment imo. EXCEPT....this part....
kids collected soft drink bottles to cash in for cigarette money
*snort*
