Milk bottles
Pondering our plastic usage, we looked at our recycling bin and realised it was full of empty plastic milk bottles. With kids who love their morning cereal, converting them to non-dairy sources seemed a good solution, unfortunately they were having non of it! Real milk only please they've said, so we've looked at our options.
From the supermarket we can get long life milk in Tetra Pak. Now recyclable, this might seem a good solution, however a quick Google showed us that there is often a lack of the specialist equipment needed to recycle this material. Apparently cartons can't be recycled properly by normal paper mills because of the aluminium or plastic lining that is bonded to the paper. So even if we put it in the recycling bin, chanced are it will still go to land fill! Oh dear.
A better solution would be to reuse rather than recycle of course, so we've decided to start ordering our milk from the good old milk man (www.milkandmore.co.uk). Delivered to the door in glass bottles, it feels like a blast from the past and you just leave the glass bottles out to be picked back up and washed - a repeat order now comes Monday, Wednesday and Friday and can be changed up to 9pm the night before, but the ordering process is proving far from perfect. The idea sounds great, but the mobile website doesn't always work properly and we're so far limited to how much we order. It's taken a phone call with someone in India to find out that we need to have three payments (one a month) to go through before we can order all we want. This isn't enticing me in as a customer that's for sure, but we're ordering some milk this way to give it a go, despite the milk being three times the price of the supermarket OMG! (81p/pint versus 27p/pint - Jan '18). UHT long life is around 40p a pint if we buy in bulk so we're going for a glass bottle/long life combo for the moment.
"I think using glass bottles good because they are easy to put in your fridge instead of squashing it all in. It is also saving lives of fish because fish eat plastic without knowing." Sophie, aged 8
From the supermarket we can get long life milk in Tetra Pak. Now recyclable, this might seem a good solution, however a quick Google showed us that there is often a lack of the specialist equipment needed to recycle this material. Apparently cartons can't be recycled properly by normal paper mills because of the aluminium or plastic lining that is bonded to the paper. So even if we put it in the recycling bin, chanced are it will still go to land fill! Oh dear.
A better solution would be to reuse rather than recycle of course, so we've decided to start ordering our milk from the good old milk man (www.milkandmore.co.uk). Delivered to the door in glass bottles, it feels like a blast from the past and you just leave the glass bottles out to be picked back up and washed - a repeat order now comes Monday, Wednesday and Friday and can be changed up to 9pm the night before, but the ordering process is proving far from perfect. The idea sounds great, but the mobile website doesn't always work properly and we're so far limited to how much we order. It's taken a phone call with someone in India to find out that we need to have three payments (one a month) to go through before we can order all we want. This isn't enticing me in as a customer that's for sure, but we're ordering some milk this way to give it a go, despite the milk being three times the price of the supermarket OMG! (81p/pint versus 27p/pint - Jan '18). UHT long life is around 40p a pint if we buy in bulk so we're going for a glass bottle/long life combo for the moment.
"I think using glass bottles good because they are easy to put in your fridge instead of squashing it all in. It is also saving lives of fish because fish eat plastic without knowing." Sophie, aged 8
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