“I grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, and there was no plastic! Milk was delivered in glass bottles with waxed paper or foil lids, and empty bottles were washed and returned to the milkman.
Our sandwiches for lunch were wrapped in waxed paper, and loaves of bread came in waxed paper packages (which we’d reuse to polish our metal slide in the backyard). Storage containers were glass and lasted for many years.”
#7 Greyhound buses and trains were the same way, as well as restaurants and bars and stores and, everywhere
#15 until they went out of business and that was because the chain stores moved into town, usually a short drive away, couldn't walk to them, they sold more things at cheaper prices.