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I’D Like To Set The Record Straight
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Yesterday, all I heard from lots of young people how us Baby Boomers had ruined the planet, so let’s get this straight. When we and our parents were young, there was no plastic.
Meat and fish were wrapped in grease proof paper and old newspaper, as was butter or lard. Soft fruit and veg, cakes and biscuits were put in paper bags. Root veg covered in soil went straight into a shopping bag, usually made from old curtains (so that’s where Cath Kidston got her idea from!).
‘Dry Goods like flour, sugar, dried fruit etc., was written in a little blue book by my Mum or Nan and taken down to the Maypole or Home and Colonial, to be delivered the following day by a boy on a bike containing the cardboard box on the front with the items wrapped in thick blue paper and folded on the top in such a way nothing fell out.
Milk came in glass bottles delivered in an electric vehicle call a milk float.
So please will someone tell these young people that they are the plastic lovers. It makes it more scary to think how short a time it took for it to get into the seas.
Meat and fish were wrapped in grease proof paper and old newspaper, as was butter or lard. Soft fruit and veg, cakes and biscuits were put in paper bags. Root veg covered in soil went straight into a shopping bag, usually made from old curtains (so that’s where Cath Kidston got her idea from!).
‘Dry Goods like flour, sugar, dried fruit etc., was written in a little blue book by my Mum or Nan and taken down to the Maypole or Home and Colonial, to be delivered the following day by a boy on a bike containing the cardboard box on the front with the items wrapped in thick blue paper and folded on the top in such a way nothing fell out.
Milk came in glass bottles delivered in an electric vehicle call a milk float.
So please will someone tell these young people that they are the plastic lovers. It makes it more scary to think how short a time it took for it to get into the seas.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Much of it did seem to come in while I was too young to have a voice, and no one clicked to the fact that many things we were becoming reliant on would end up being a headache for the world. No one can rely on foresight, hindsight is marvellous. And making the noise of protests without consideration of the consequences of overthrowing all we live by now, is easy to do; but irresponsible to fulfill. We need a balance between keeping all ticking along and correcting important issues.
The milkman still delivers in my street, around 11am three times a week.
He charges 81p for a pint of milk. I buy mine in 6 pint plastic bottles for £1.49, just under 25p a pint. The plastic bottles are taken by my council recycling lorries.
I'm not surprised we started buying milk from the supermarket, who also deliver to the door at a day and time we want.
He charges 81p for a pint of milk. I buy mine in 6 pint plastic bottles for £1.49, just under 25p a pint. The plastic bottles are taken by my council recycling lorries.
I'm not surprised we started buying milk from the supermarket, who also deliver to the door at a day and time we want.
I can remember going to Mrs Gaskins and her tipping veg straight into my mum's shopping bag. We had Corona delivered every week, glass bottles, empty ones swapped for the flavour of choice and Lucozade was in a glass bottle with yellow cellophane wrapped round it. Great fun, looking through it made everyone look jaundiced. Simple pleasures.