| In the nineteen sixties when I was a child, between | | | | disposed of and will lay in the ground indefinitely. |
| the ages of one and ten, I didn't get many toys and | | | | Wood on the other hand is bio degradable or it can |
| nor did many other kids come to think about it. But | | | | be turned into alternative products such as wood |
| the toys we did get, lasted for years and they had | | | | chippings for paths and gardens, all of which is |
| to really, because parents couldn't afford for them to | | | | environmentally friendly. |
| break within a week or so of giving them. That's | | | | Now that oil prices are forever rising and the |
| probably why the majority of the toys were natural | | | | environmental issues concerning oil and its bi product |
| wooden toys, you see they could take a knock or | | | | of plastic are always in the headlines, could the |
| two without breaking, plus at that time plastic was | | | | golden years of wooden toys return? It very much |
| only just being introduced and wasn't anywhere near | | | | looks like it is going to happen. No, it already is |
| as popular as the kids wooden toys. I can remember | | | | happening. There are more and more web sites |
| having a hobby horse and wooden trucks with bricks, | | | | growing with wood in mind, not just furniture but |
| but if your mum and dad had really good jobs or had | | | | toys too. In fact some high street furniture stores |
| a bit of money you could get the ultimate, the | | | | sell wooden toys at the side of their furniture |
| wooden rocking horse. When I look back at these | | | | because of the explosion in popularity. Can you |
| years it is probably the wooden toys that I | | | | imagine the wooden toys outselling the furniture? It |
| remember the most, possibly because we did have | | | | can and does happen. |
| them for a longer time period or maybe because | | | | Wooden toys in their basic forms aren't around as |
| they never let me down, they just didn't break. | | | | much these days because the master wooden toy |
| But as time went on plastic did become the dominant | | | | maker has a lot more technology to help him carve |
| force in toy manufacture because of its ease of | | | | and finish the toy to a high standard, but that does |
| molding into shape and its relative cheapness, thus | | | | not mean all toys will eventually be made from wood, |
| giving rise to mass production. Unfortunately though | | | | it wouldn't be easy making a video console. Yes, the |
| plastic has a tendency to break easily and can't be | | | | majority could possibly be made from wood but an |
| repaired like natural wooden toys can. The majority | | | | alternative to fossil fuels for the rest will have to be |
| of plastics also have the big problem of not being | | | | found. |
| very environmentally friendly, they just can't be | | | | |