Fair play for thinking about it nobeer.
If it’s resource use your worried about I would caution not to fall into the same trap as the poly bag debacle.
For example one of those cotton shopping bags uses 100x resource input that a single use plastic, and the heavy duty bags >50. I would worry that some of these overly eloborate beeswax type things and earthenware contraptions would be like the cotton bag vs single use bag.
I get a couple of years of solid use out of a good quality plastic tub (say 400 uses). That tub will contain ~100g of plastic produced at massive scale in an efficient way. At the end of life it can be recycled, albiet not into another tub.
I also have issues with looking to the past, because usually this is based on some unfounded philosophy that the old times were better times. I bet a Cornish tin worker in days gone by would have given his right arm for a tupperware box, when he got caught in the rain with with pasty or sat on it in the horse and cart.