In the era of the model t, everything was hard to make and thus expensive. I can very much imagine that that crate it came in wasn’t cheap, so reuse only makes sense.
In today’s age everything is so dirt cheap that packaging is just automatic pretty garbage. I’m still waiting for laws to prohibit double, triple, or even quadruple packaging at least. That tube of tooth paste really doesn’t need a carton box around it, and the tube itself could be aluminum again so that the entire damned thing can be recycled, but yeah, plastics are cheaper so here we are.
Didn’t realize how bad plastic truly was until working at Lowe’s for a bit. My god, every product layered in no less than 2 and often 5 or 6 layers of plastic. Even working the outdoor area, where you wouldn’t expect too much, I was tossing out a dumpster a day.
You put it way better than I did about packaging before plastics! There’s so many fascinating examples of things being reused back in the day because of the cost that would never happen today, and will need to start happening again if we want to avoid a societal level catastrophie
In the era of the model t, everything was hard to make and thus expensive. I can very much imagine that that crate it came in wasn’t cheap, so reuse only makes sense.
In today’s age everything is so dirt cheap that packaging is just automatic pretty garbage. I’m still waiting for laws to prohibit double, triple, or even quadruple packaging at least. That tube of tooth paste really doesn’t need a carton box around it, and the tube itself could be aluminum again so that the entire damned thing can be recycled, but yeah, plastics are cheaper so here we are.
Didn’t realize how bad plastic truly was until working at Lowe’s for a bit. My god, every product layered in no less than 2 and often 5 or 6 layers of plastic. Even working the outdoor area, where you wouldn’t expect too much, I was tossing out a dumpster a day.
You put it way better than I did about packaging before plastics! There’s so many fascinating examples of things being reused back in the day because of the cost that would never happen today, and will need to start happening again if we want to avoid a societal level catastrophie