> Growing up in communist Poland I remember having to bring to the store empty milk glass bottles to swap them for filed ones. We were similar in Australia and

> Growing up in communist Poland I remember having to bring to the store empty milk glass bottles to swap them for filed ones. We were similar in Australia and I thought most of the first world (original definition). The milkman used to come by everyday drop off the fresh milk and pick up the empty bottles, the milkman was probably only necessary because of the awful urban planning though. Supermarkets and fresh produce stores also had huge piles of old cardboard boxes to carry stuff home in, when you came back you'd throw the old ones in there, now there's more cardboard and plastic packaging on everything but almost none of it is in a reusable format.