Interview with Jan Öhlin.

The environmental awareness has increased rapidly since Jan was younger and he would say that there was none back in the sixties. When they bought glass bottles of soft drinks, they would buy them in boxes and when they finished the drink, they simply put the bottle back into the box and when all were empty, they gave the box back to the store which took care of the rest. There was no recycling so all the garbage was thrown into a big container that they would have on their street. There was also no car wash so all the cars were being washed on the driveway so the oil and dirt would wash off and penetrate into the soil.

Nowadays, there is recycling but we also buy more things than when he was young. He thinks that it is a lot more littering now.

He is affected by media by commercials and mainly by the ones where they tell you to deposit recyclable bottles.

In the future, he thinks there will be better environmental friendly cars or maybe no cars at all. His suggestions to help the environment would be better public transport.

Astrid Gullström Öhlin, SPTS3A