Dear members,
A plastic bag weighs less than a carton, but in places where there is no plastic-bag-recycling, cartons are much more biodegradable, and goats eat them happily, while in most places where there is recycling cartons can be put in the recycling bin.
Glass is lovely, but developing countries cannot even consider importing bottles, retrieving them, washing them, etc....
Nothing is simple.
Nancy Abeiderrahmane
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Milk in bags eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTPgd4HUk4w
101 uses for milk bags… if you can get to the end there is a good demonstration of the robustness of the bags
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bUHLHcU-bY
Rick Phillips
Agreed, kids love chewing on straws. I remember a few “spit ball” fights with straws when I was in middle school.
Donna Berry
Consultant, Editor, Food Guru
Dairy & Food Communications, Inc.
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Subject: Milk Bags - part2
Milk bags have become popular in many countries including Europe and Canada but has as yet to really take off in America. The bags tend to need jugs to be placed in, however Daylesford in the UK came up with a sleek and simple designed biodegradable bag with an integral handle which gave another option for the consumer. Waitrose, one of the sellers of this product, ironically stopped its own milk pouch and jug concept claiming there was not enough demand for this type of product.
However Sainsbury’s promotes it’s Jug It scheme nationally. The milk was able to be sold at least six pence less in bags as it used 75% less packaging than plastic bottles. The jug, which has a built in spike to pierce the milk bags and serves as a spout, was initially given away free to boost sales. A report states 3% of its 24 million weekly customers, the equivalent of 720,000 shoppers, have switched to regularly using milk bags. Although the scheme proved more popular than Sainsbury’s initial projections it still hasn’t replaced the plastic bottle. Milk bags are also used by companies like Costa Coffee which estimates it can fit 25% more milk in fridges as it takes up less space. Costa’s parent company Whitbread believes it uses 70% less plastic now they buy milk bags instead of plastic milk containers.
One store in the US that has made milk bags popular is Kwik Trip, which in addition to plastic bottled milk, sells Milk Moola which is milk in a bag similar to the Sainsbury’s Jug It scheme. This has become popular in part thanks to its charity fundraising scheme. Schools and communities can send in Milk Moola bottle tops from selected products to redeem for cash for their cause.
So what next? Cardboard cartons are still popular worldwide. I buy lactose free milk which is sold in recyclable cardboard cartons. Easy to stack on shelves but usually limited to 1 litre packages which makes them impractical for larger families. The Jug It scheme, though popular, does not have the mass appeal to make people ditch the plastic bottle. Clearly we have not seen the last of the plastic bottle but can we create a more environmentally friendly bottle which can be biodegradable? I think this is the future. Coca Cola are already investing heavily in plant based bottles maybe the solution is closer than we thought?
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OUR BIG IDEA
Consumers seem to still favour plastic bottles for their milk and without a mass marketing campaign or the dairy community committing to cease using the bottles this is unlikely to change. However despite popularity and usability of the bottles, there is a drive from governments to cut down landfill waste which helps the industry look to more environmentally friendly materials to create the bottles from. Surely technology can create a bottle which degrades naturally and quicker than the current 500 years?
If such a material was developed in pouch form, gallons of milk could be sold in individual servings connected together. When you want one, tear if off the ream and stick straw in it! Drink it like a juice box, toss it like a banana peel. Easy to drink on the go!

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