At the checkout counter, a young cashier suggested to a much older gentleman that he should consider bringing his own grocery bags, explaining that plastic bags are harmful to the environment. The man smiled and replied, “Back in my day, we didn’t have this ‘green thing.
‘” With a raised brow, the cashier remarked, “Well, that’s the problem.
Your generation didn’t care enough about the environment to protect it for us. ”
The older man nodded thoughtfully.
“You’re right; we didn’t have this ‘green thing’ in our day,” he said.
“Back then, we returned glass milk bottles and soda bottles to the store. They’d get sent back to be washed and reused over and over again.
They were recycled, but we didn’t have a label for it. ”
What happened next changed everything…
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