I remember how environmentally friendly food was packaged in Soviet times, and I wondered why they stopped doing this.

Imagine: in Soviet times, boys walked down the street and ate fused cheese from a tube, because such packaging seemed prestigious. And nowadays there are so many colorful tubes, boxes, bags, packages and other plastic that for us a craft bag is considered prestigious - the same brown, paper one that costs more than plastic. Times change, but memory remains. Now it is a sin not to remember that before packaging It was commonplace.

These days, only two trips to the supermarket fill the trash can under the very top. It seems that there is more waste from food than food. The whole world is screaming that the planet is on edge. disaster. But 50 years ago, there was less garbage. Let's remember why.

Eco-friendly packaging in Soviet times

Let’s be honest: this is not about some extraordinary consciousness of Soviet citizens. Just plastic bags They were so rare that they were not even thrown away. Remember the bag? Many grandparents still have it. Now the so-called T-shirts are given in every supermarket. Not for free, of course, but they cost a penny. You will be surprised, but these grocery departments make good revenue, because the cost of them is minimal.

As previously packed sausage

Unsplash and sausage used to be different. For example, only beef, eggs, pork and milk could be found in the doctorate. She also tasted the same. natural. And if there was no "Doctor's", you could opt for "Amateur". In its composition added a ridge spike, which, however, did not spoil its taste.

The nuance was that almost all sausage products were sold by weight. I remember now: an unbearable iron scale, the product on one shoulder, and iron weights on the other. It was an interesting system, now the technique is much better. But they packed in brown-paperIt was also called cardboard. It packed absolutely all sausages, even such prestigious as "Nevskaya" or "Moscow". That's how you walk down the street, and no one knows what you have wrapped there - "Soviet" or liver with sausages.



Everything was wrapped in paper: cheese and butter, too. The food was stored better in them as well. For example, cheese is generally contraindicated to suffocate in film. This is a product that needs to “breathe.” However, in our time, few people think about it, there is no such culture. Going bad? You can buy a new one. Still. Soviet I was poorer and leaner.

Triangles for milk Cardboard packaging The milk did not come immediately. Someone told me that the Soviet Union bought the technology from Sweden. But like many things of Soviet quality, such packaging was often unstuck. And the milk itself was stored in it for a short time - because of the same problem with tightness. But enterprising housewives found its use and after using milk, they let cardboard under seedlings.



Unsplash is another matter - bidons and glass-coat. Such packaging is really environmentally friendly, it is a pity that it has sunk into oblivion. It was not difficult to understand what kind of milk was sold in the canon. This was signaled by colored caps and letters on them. The silver cover denoted milk, purple color was chosen for fermented meat, green for kefir, and yellow said that cream was in the canoe.

Products sold in glass containers were a bit heavy to carry. naturallyBut the container itself could be surrendered. And if the milk cost 28 kopecks, then the container - 15. Speaking of which, avosik! Now they are at the peak of popularity, they can be found in the nightstand of an eco-activist, at fairs, in stores with all sorts of fashionable things. The truth is that fashion is cyclical. But who would have thought that it would bring back to life the avosya? And with an environmental message.



Newspapers are like eco-packaging And remember the grandmothers at the stops? What they did not sell: sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and peanuts. And in the summer season cherries, cherries, blackberries. The berries and seeds themselves were in aluminum basins or buckets, and they were sold by measuring them with cones. A cone was formed from a newspaper or notebook, the product fell into it, after which it remained only to pay.



At the moment, the situation is as follows: even products by weight wrapped and plasticize. The only exception is markets that are true to old traditions. Garbage is everywhere: packages fly away from the slightest breath of wind. And there is no salvation from it, because in our country there is simply no garbage recycling business. Sooner or later, we will be mired in a huge pile of waste, and there will be no one to blame.

In vogue not only avosak, but also paper for packaging. Now wax paper can be purchased to buy products that must be wrapped. Like cheese or meat. Very convenient, because wax paper can be washed and used repeatedly.



And yet technological progress does not always lead to the best, there are nuances. Garbage is growing, and no one wants to fight it at the state level. And who will come to mind to return everywhere? packaging Like the Soviet Union? Share in the comments what you think about this.