Was it better with paper bags and glass bottles?
I remember paper drives when I was a child, and collecting bottles on the side of the road for the deposit.
When I got my first job as a bag boy at Publics, they were pushing plastic bags as a way to save the world by saving trees.
A future issue will be mercury in our drinking water from the energy saving bulbs that burn out then deposit to our land fields.
“Was it better with paper bags and glass bottles?”
Absolutely, paper/carboard is very easy to recycle here in the US. It is made into more paper.
Glass can also easily be recycled into more glass.
Aluminum is actually the only thing worth recycling. If you fill up a compacted 24’ dumpster. It is worth some cash.
pushing plastic bags as a way to save the world by saving trees.
Ironically, trees are the original renewable resource. Cut 100 down, plant 125 (just to be safe). Done. Renewed.