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  • Maybe we should go back to the milk person bringing the milk round in churns or a tank and dispensing it into our jugs or other handy vessels. Ma did the milk round like that in the late 40s ... with a pony and trap. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    We also buy our milk in plastic bottles, but the 4pt ones, which make splendid plant labels if you cut them into strips with scissors.
    The fresh milk idea sounds good but I'm not sure I could be bothered.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited November 2019
    Fresh milk deliveries are fine if you're at home to receive them and put the milk in the fridge.   I can remember great excitement in the 60s when blue tits tuaght each other up and down the country to peck milk bottle tops to get the cream. We stopped milk deliveries in Harrow in the 80s because, in summer, the milk could stay outside, facing south, all day and be "cooked".   

    Never seen fresh milk deliveries here and it's hard to find pasteurised but we do make sure our milk is from a local co-operative giveing a fair price to teh farmers.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • pr1mr0sepr1mr0se Posts: 1,193
    Here in Mid-Devon we are lucky enough to have a pannier market - super fresh produce in season.  One greengrocer has introduced the glass bottle refill system, and it is very popular - and I use it as often as I can.  However, to get to the market, you have to drive and pay to park the car  which adds to the cost per litre of milk if that is all you want on that day.  
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Can you freeze glass bottles, I buy 3 x 4pts a week and keep it in the freezer,  not that we have the option of glass.
    The shop and garage in the next village are supplied by OH’s brother who took over the family farm, made it organic and also do a delivery round,   Only full cream though, they haven’t invested in a skimmer. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Obelixx said:
    France is one of the highest exporters of plastic waste for sorting in 3rd world countries.   Why can't the sorting and recycling be done here?


    Because 3rd world countries don't have a national minimum wage, or paid holidays, or paid sick leave, or occupational pensions, or H&S.  If they did the sorting and recycling in France, they probably couldn't turn a profit. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited November 2019
    @Lyn  ...  I’ve not tried it myself .....  
    https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-freeze-milk-in-glass-bottles/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I didn’t think the full fat froze so well, it separates then doesn’t blend back together. They do make a lot of items with recycled milk bottles, but to what expense to the atmosphere? Factories must make pollution, I read that you could drive a 1960’s gas guzzler car for a lifetime for the amount of pollution generated to make and run one electric car, could have been fake news!
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We used to be told to worry about the use of paper. Now we're told to replace plastic with paper.
    On a recent visit to kew,I bought some water in a cafe. It boasted its eco friendly credentials. It had come from Austria in a small aluminium tin!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited November 2019
    The theory is that transporting the lightweight tins has less environmental impact than heavier glass bottles and jars and can be recycled more efficiently and is less polluting than plastic ... but transporting water unnecessarily is ridiculous. 😠 Try asking for tap water 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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