showcrop
Well-known Member
As I was opening a sleeve of Ritz crackers it made me think of how when I was kid they were packed in wax paper and opened a lot more easily. I would say that Saran wrap came out around 1963. before that sandwiches were all wrapped in waxed paper. There were no plastic bottles. All glass until the first canned soda came out around 1960. Medicines were all in glass bottles. There were no blister packs, everything was in little cardboard boxes. Car interiors were either metal or fabric or wood. What a revolution in packaging and manufacturing when plastics came along. Almost overnight a family of four went from a half a bushel of trash a week to two, and now landfills cover a lot of our planet's surface.