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Author Topic: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.  (Read 1191 times)

broadstairs

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A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« on: April 04, 2019, 07:39:55 PM »

Just found thiswhich is so true.....

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain:
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.
We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a r azor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the"green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person.

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to pee us off... Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

Stuart
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Re: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2019, 07:45:11 PM »

It's true that we have an enormous amount of waste these days :(    We tend to live in a disposable world where it's expected to throw something out because it is broken.   

So many electrical/electronics items that can't be repaired... or it's as cheap to buy brand new than repair :(
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Re: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2019, 08:03:26 PM »

It’s a complex issue and people do like to oversimplify. Some things shouldn’t be recycled mindlessly. Like glass for example. It may or may not be the case that transporting cleaning and repurposing used glassware could use up a lot of energy and someone has to do the arithmetic properly to determine whether or not it is simply cheaper in energy terms to throw away a glass item, given that it is inherently a very cheap material, aside from the energy cost in its manufacture, and very inert.

People such as me meanwhile recycle glass bottles whilst putting some more peat onto the fire in order to pump out more CO2.
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Re: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2019, 08:31:04 PM »

Now what about all the coal that everyone used to burn to heat their homes .

Have to agree that we have become a throw away society, so much is wasted needlessly which could be reused. A lot of this is down to manufacturers, but also consumers who often replace things simply to have the latest.
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Re: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2019, 11:03:01 PM »

One thing that amuses me these days is when I buy a newspaper, just once a week, the Saturday Guardian.

Until not so long ago, just like when I bought a magazine, I could shake it by the spine before removing it from the shelf, to get rid of all the advertising leaflets.   These days they have got wise to that, so the leaflets are packed together with the legitimate weekend magazine bits, wrapped up in a stout polythene wrapper.

Yet despite having all these advertising leaflets, brochures and booklets forced upon me when all I want to do is buy a newspaper, and despite having to dispose of the thick polythene wrapper I didn’t want,  I’m not allowed a lightweight disposable carrier bag to take it all home in.    Not to worry though, the Guardian prides itself in supporting environmental causes.    :D

I’m not picking just on the Guardian, same problem applies to most magazines and papers these days. :o
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Re: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2019, 06:25:31 AM »

What about when you buy a new electrical item, it's in a box often wrapper in plastic, you open the box and the individual parts inside are in plastic bags, you take the parts out the bags and sometimes they have plastic stuck to them to protect their surfaces  :wall:

Manufacturers really need to sort themselves out.
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Re: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2019, 07:56:04 AM »

We recently purchased by mail order a new vacuum cleaner, it came in  a stout cardboard box with internal protection of a cardboard tray. No sign of plastic save for a few small plastic labels (peelable) with some instructions on how parts worked. So some manufacturers are trying.

Stuart
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Re: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2019, 09:05:37 AM »

Talking of vacuum cleaners, I recently replaced my 25 year old Electrolux with a modern Bosch.

The Electrolux used paper-ish bags that were open at one end.   You folded over the end of the bag, and slid on a plastic clip.   The plastic clip was permanent, lasting the life of the vacuum, and the bags could be emptied and reused a few times.  Can’t remember if you were meant to reuse them, but I did.

The Bosch bags are factory-sealed, so a new bag is needed every time.  Istr you can purchase a reusable fabric bag online but it’s darned expensive, and wasn’t supplied with the cleaner. 
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Re: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2019, 10:09:15 AM »

Our new vacuum cleaner is bagless!

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Re: A green thing everyone today is obsessed with.
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2019, 08:42:22 PM »

I replaced the motor in our 25 year old vacuum  cleaner and now it will last another 25 years . ;D
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