What A Fab Invention, Is It?

[nicebloke1]

The poppy for poppy day this year is going to save the planet. Its made with 50% recycled cardboard coffee cups,WOW!
Back in 1955 my first year in infant school I was cutting out flower shapes from corn flake boxes with blunt ended scissors. So whats all the fuss about. :•)))

[MissTerious2]

We were actually very much better at saving the planet back then in many ways. Nothing much was thrown away and we made do and mended.

[nicebloke1]

MT, would love to know how much the equipment / machines cost to make this elaborate pulp, and what percentage of the funds taken in poppy sales go to the manufacturer.

[Tilly2]

Will they still have plastic stems?

[Old_Geezer]

Just heard a mention of it on the radio. Had to stiffle a yawn with all the excitement.

[Tilly2]

Every little helps.

[barry1010]

MissT, all those coal fires and factory emissions didn't do much good for the planet. I can't remember the last time I experienced smog or even a thick fog.
I do remember the smell from the gas holders and the expense of having asbestos removed from the family home.

[Prudie]

On the radio I heard no plastic stems - either sticky back or use a pin. When I was really young I seem to remember they were made of red felty stuff and you only used a pin. The black button also had Haig Fund written on.

[MissTerious2]

Your'e right Barry. I was 5 and living in london the big London Smog. And i remember it quite well. My mum had a supply of nurses masks and i had to wear one to go to school. It came home black! I also rememberewhen we weren't allowed to use coal anymore in our flat and had to change to a fuel called coalite.

But families in general caused far less rubbish. And recycling was weekly when the rag and bone man came with his norse drawn cart!

Clothes were mended and not discarded. Furniture was rarely replaced in homes, etc. etc.

[MissTerious2]

We dont buy poppies, but I quite regularly buy stuff from the Britush Legion shop or give donations.

[Atheist]

"And recycling was weekly when the rag and bone man came with his norse drawn cart"

Good Lord! Have the Vikings - mighty pillagers and plunderers - been reduced to totting?

[MissTerious2]

Ha ha Atheist. I wondered what you were on about at first!

[barry1010]

When we had open fires, a lot of what goes in the rubbish today was burned. The pets ate the food scraps and the leftovers that weren't composted. Even ladies sanitary products were burned.
Regular bonfires for garden waste, cardboard, anything and everything that would burn, no council collections for that and no tutting neighbours complaining.
Old clothes went to jumble sales, knitted clothes were unravelled and re-knitted.

Of course our food wasn't pre-packaged in plastic and I try very hard not to buy food packaged in that way.

It wasn't all better back in the day. I no longer see rainbows in the gutters from leaking cars, nor lots of dog poo (white dog poo has disappeared altogether), nor piles of fag ends deposited in the gutter by smoking motorists. I certainly don't miss the fag fug in pubs, theatres, cinemas, buses, planes, everywhere.

[MissTerious2]

All very true Barry May I ask you a personal question. You don't have to answer. What year were you born?